Dramatic rendering
A couple of days ago, I went to Target to take advantage of a Diet Coke sale. I went up to the register with three (3) fridge packs. Here's a brief dramatized recreation of the exchange:
Buying Diet Coke at Target
Cashier -- a teenager working at Target, approximately 17 years old. Has press-on nails.
John -- a customer buying some Diet Coke
The action of the play takes place between 11:31 and 11:32 at Target in DeKalb, Illinois.
Cashier: Hi, how are you doing today?
John: Fine, thanks.
Cashier begins scanning the fridge packs of Diet Coke. All of a sudden, she gets a puzzled look on her face as she looks closely at the case of Diet Coke. She begins talking to herself.
Cashier: (to herself) Diet Coke? DIET Coke. Diet COKE. Hmm . . .
Pause.
Cashier: (begins to speak, but fumbles for words) Now, Diet Coke ... Is that--? I mean-- Is Diet Coke the same as Coke? I mean, like, Coca-Cola . . . like Coke. I mean, is it the same thing?
John: (taken aback initially, but maintains composure, despite having been confronted with someone who has never before heard of Diet Coke) Well, it's the same company, but Diet Coke has no calories, while Coke is made with real sugar.
Cashier: Oh, I see.
offered up to the world by CoachDub @ 6:32 PM
15 comments
15 Comments:
i just hope carmen cummings never stumbles upon this post... but yeah... what a freak. probably home schooled
Why will Carmen have a problem with this post?
oh, cramen love the d to the c. she got me hooked. even the thought of someone not knowing what it is.... might just give her and early death.
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It's also compounded by her Target obsession.
Okay, say that you run into a new soda you have never seen before. Let's call it "Soda X". And for the next couple of years you only drank "Soda X". Then all of a sudden you notice a soda that has packaging the looks nearly identical, but instead is labeled "Diet Soda X". Would it not be safe to assume that even a small child would understand it is a "healthier" version of the same soda?
And it is not like Diet Coke is only an American thing either.
i thought diet coke just had no sugar, but still calories mmmm.
Nope. Diet Coke = Zero calories.
It's made with Nutrasweet.
nutrasweet=nutragross. and by that i mean diet coke tastes like goat piss. ok, well i've never tasted goat piss, but if i did, i imagine that diet coke would be very similar in just about every facet of gustatory (i learned this word in pre-ap) appeal - or lack thereof. especially the after taste.
p.s. you should really go back and ask her what she was... well... she probably wasn't thinking. that could have been the problem. but carson is right... what a fruit cake.
i love how we can all pretentiously laugh at some poor simpleton, who works at target and is just so sheltered as to not have ever heard of diet coke, behind her back on a blog. it makes me feel good. like i'm kicking something. on the ground.
diet coke is the drink of the gods tay. say otherwise, and I may have to hurt you. Trust me, I can.
It takes a brilliant mind, especially the mind of an award-winning debate champion, to argue about another person's individual taste bud preferences.
Especially with terms like "goat-piss"
Sam....knows carmen cummings? Hmmm.
And you should enter this in the 1 minute play contest. And yes, I am serious.
http://www.iveyawards.com/oneMinutePlay.asp
I probably could have made that a functional link, but HTML puts the frighteners to me.
I recall one day in Knowledge Bowl, Carmen set her iPod, wallet, and Diet Coke on a desk and left the room. These items were promptly hidden upon her departure. When she re-entered the room, the first the she said was "Where's my Diet Coke?"
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