Coca-Cola Fountain

[BookBint]

Today I went out at the early hour of 11am (early at least for New Year's Day, most people are still recovering from last night) to buy many soothing medicines for the chronic cold I've had since Christmas. I went to a local shop, and as I was arriving a distinctly drunk man was staggering out. Two clerks were at the door, telling him politely to get lost. He was shouting at them that it was illegal for them to refuse to serve him etc, the usual rant about his rights to buy gut rot when he was already unable to stand.

As I approached he suddenly stopped shouting and asked me very nicely if I'd buy him some Jack Daniels. I shook my head and tried to get past, but he kept blocking my path. I looked to the clerks to help but they obviously figured that once outside the shop he wasn't their problem anymore. I eventually managed to get by, but he followed me into the shop and proceeded to kick over a display of Coke cans, several of which burst and started shooting foamy sticky goodness in all directions.

At this point a clerk called the police. The drunk then sat on the floor in protest, but since the floor was covered in Coke, all he succeeded in doing was to get his trousers completely soaked.

By the time I left the man had been taken away by two rather hungover policemen. Special.

[Merriweather]

Oh my, sticky icky coke, poor employees who had to clean up that mess.

Can I tread-jack and tell my favourite drunk-in-a-supermarket story? I didn't witness it personally, it was in our local tiny little paper in a town I used to live in. And he really wasn't an SC.

The guy was in the store for quite some time, the employees actually felt bad when they finally had to call the police when he began to pick up bottles, and was so drunk he was dropping & breaking them on the floor by accident. But up til that point, they hadn't said anything cause although he'd been in the store close to an hour, obviously drunk, he was having such a long and involved conversation with the stuffed animals on the display near the registers......

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

If it was Coke Zero I'd be all "Noooo! Nooooooooooooo! This isn't happening! This ISN'T happening!"

[Kristev]

The worst thing about cleaning non-diet soda off the floor is that it leaves the floor so sticky, it could ensnare Superman. It can also destroy the floor's wax, but that doesn't bother me. I don't believe floors should be waxed, because the threat of falling from the slickness is more important than the temporary shine.

[Shalom]

The worst thing about cleaning non-diet soda off the floor is that it leaves the floor so sticky.

That's why they use Diet Coke for the coke+mentos rockets. Regular coke fizzes higher, but it's a bear to clean up.