No, I will not exchange your old sodas

[tollbaby]

I've been known to trade whatever wrong brand of soda the pizza guy brings me for my preferred brand (you know, the one I originally ordered) at the convenience store near my house... but then, I know the owner and she doesn't mind - besides, I usually spend money besides.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Guess it didn't occur to him to get a cup of ice...?

When I first saw the thread title, I thought it said "sofas", and I saw your name and I thought, "doesn't she run a convenience store? Why would she have sofas?"

[Kara]

I have some old oil in my car that I need to have changed. So by his logic that shouldn't cost me 20 bucks. I think even the guys at the wal mart tire & lube place are smarter than that (no offense to any wal mart people here, but the locals are a little on the dim side).

I suppose he may not have opened the sodas, but still, they'd probably been out there for months or he would have just put them in the fridge. Open or not, pop goes flat after awhile, and I think the combination of car + hot sun probably speeds this process up.

Maybe I could exchange that eyeliner I forgot about in the car that dried up.

[Noelegy]

Eek, he's lucky they didn't explode. That happened with some Diet Cokes in the back of my car. The light-gray headliner of my PT Cruiser is now covered with brown spots.

[VoodooSquirrel]

Oh no, totally the right thing, God knows how old those things were or what he could have done to them.

[mrtauntaun]

Oh heck no you weren't wrong. I mean, that's just wrong of him.

[It's me]

Say I have a package of hot dogs I left in my car overnight in the middle of the summer... maybe I could just walk in to a random store and "exchange" them?

[IT Grunt]

People will do anything to save a buck these days, won't they? Sheesh. I think you were in the right to refuse it. If he didn't want them to roll around in the hot sun, then he shouldn't have left them in the car. If he wants cold sodas, he should either refrigerate those again, or just buy them.

[ahanix1989]

He has a fridge, he can make his hot sodas cold again.

[SuperB]

Guy comes in with two bottles of soda and asked if he could exchange them. He hadn't bought them from me and his reason for asking me to trade them?

They had been rolling around in his car and left in the hot sun and he wants cold sodas.

I told him no way, I didn't know how old them might have been, I wasn't going to bother looking for the dates on them and I seriously doubt anyone would want to purchase something like that. When he argued with me and said, "it's about being nice", I argued back that it was about being "responsible". When I asked him if he would want to buy a soda that had been left however long in someone's hot car, he left.

Was I wrong and would anyone here have let him make that trade?