I really do not know where to begin here, but I have gotten this far so I can’t stop now I guess.
For years now, I have been battling an addiction to coke… caffeine free, diet coke. It’s gotten to the point where every extra dollar… and then some… goes toward scoring my next, refreshingly crisp 16 oz. fix.
My wife can nolonger bear to talk at me, she says it’s like “… taking to the bottom of a coke bottle” each time she tries to. I am so embarassed, and I don’t know what to do or where to turn.
Help?
PS: Pepsi products are so way out of the question.
Here’s something I read about on Snopes. The Coca-Cola logo kinda looks like a guy with a Popeye the Sailor Man chin, and a hat, reaching up to snort some coke.
My wife used to be a coke addict. I have done my best to encourage her in the pleasures of tea, and even coffee, but nothing has “taken”. She has passed her addiction on to my son, who is now also a coke addict. She herself has moved on to the hard stuff - Pepsi Max.
The Fridge is full of the stuff. It’s getting hard to fit the odd bottle of beer in there.
For one thing, we keep more diet drinks than regular in the house now, and I despise diet soft drinks–absolutely nasty. Blech!
Also, we don’t keep 'em cold in the fridge anymore–and we DO keep cold water and the odd concoction of Krystal Light made up and cold.
Finally, in the mornings why settle for less when you can have the best? We have a French press and a coffee grinder. 'Nuff said.
–James
P.S. Teachers are so often the very cause of what they try to prevent. When in grade school, a substitute teacher–I have no clue what her name was at this late date–seeking no doubt to be helpful, pointed out to the class that you should drink a glass of water first thing each morning to “lubricate your intestines.”
It was YEARS before I could drink plain water after that.
Or maybe the pop-artist daughter of Peter, named in the Zappa tradition.
(I imagine if there were such a girl, she’d go all reactionary and start painting like Andrew Wyeth.)
here’s my advice: switch from one addiction to another. there is a wide range of some very nice and addictive choices out there. speaking from personal experience, there is a down side. every time i try to get addicted to something, right before i go the whole distance, i realize that “it” doesn’t really matter to me. then i have to be wary of something different coming my way. i hear other people have other problems with addictions.
What worked for me: take some old, rusty bicycle parts, or if these aren’t available, get some old rusty nails or screws or bolts, put these in a bowl or tray. Pour in the cola product of your choice until the parts are submerged. Check these twice a day to monitor the cola’s progress stripping the rust off the metal parts. Remove metal parts from the cola bath when they are rust-free and rinse in clean water to halt the cola product’s acidic progress. Next time you go to drink a cola, think of what it did to the metal, and that it is doing the same thing to your insides.
We have a French press and a coffee grinder. 'Nuff said. 
