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/Personal_Mythology Pop-tart Complaint

Today, after being forced to buy Chocolate Fudge Pop-tarts for the umpteenth time, I had to do something about it. I left the evil vending-machine stocker a formal complaint:

I am so very tired of having to buy Chocolate Fudge Pop-tarts just to get them out of the way whenever I want some edible Pop-tarts. I realize you probably have to stock them due to some arrangement with your supplier, or because it's a cheaper way to supply some variety. That may work well for you, but not for me (and I'm sure I'm not alone in this).

The problem is that I feel that 75 cents is being extorted from me every time I want a tasty Pop-tart. Once the chocolate ones come to the front, people avoid buying them. So, they sit there, mocking those of us who'd like to have a good-tasting Pop-tart but are unwilling (until dying for a fix) to purchase the chocolate cardboard in order to get to a palatable flavor. Eventually, the Pop-tart starved individual is forced to buy the shingle-flavor to get to something edible.

I have an idea: How 'bout you stock the mud-flavored ones in a separate bin. Then, you'll have deployed them, and can sleep soundly, but, conversely, no one is obliged to buy them, so the people can exercise their God-given right to avoid crappy Pop-tarts.

It will be an interesting experiment to see whether you *ever* have to stock the chocolate ones again. My guess is that you won't. They'll still be there when cockroaches have taken over the planet, and even the cockroaches will avoid them.

Of course running this experiment will mean that you won't make money off the chocolate ones, but the money you were making off of them was extorted most of the time, anyway. I'm sure you'll sleep better knowing you've done the right thing.

Ha-ha only serious :-)

Posted: Wed Apr 02 07:53:58 -0800 2003

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