I recently purchased a 20 oz bottle of Diet Pepsi for $1.59 at a local grocery store. After doing a little math I was horrified to discover that the cost of my pepsi works out to about $10.17 a gallon!!! At current prices, the same 20 oz container filled with gasoline would only cost about $0.62. What's wrong with this picture? Was my Diet Pepsi pumped from beneath the Arctic ice shelf? Does it originate from beneath the burning sands of some war-torn middle-eastern dictatorship? Can gasoline quench my thirst the same way that Diet pepsi does? No, no and I wish!!! We all know that not drinking Diet Pepsi is simply not an option. So I am writing to you, esteemed Mr. President, to do something about this very serious problem. Some weeks I have to choose between pepsi or eating. Sometimes I even have to travel to Mexico to get my pepsi. That's not right. As an American I feel that I should be able to able to purchase my pepsi with dignity and at an affordable price.
Thank you, Mr. President, for your kind consideration of my concerns,
Respectfully,
Chad Irving
we should be hearing from the President any time now :)
ReplyDeleteClearly government needs to intervene on behalf of all of us little people. Thanks for taking the initiative, Chad.
ReplyDeleteThese are troubling times.
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
ReplyDeleteI remember a very similar Job post from long ago
ReplyDeleteFound it in less than a minute!
ReplyDeleteP.T. Barnum once said something to the effect of "Creativity is just a matter of concealing your sources."
ReplyDeleteBefore you accuse me of plagiarism I must say that I had forgotten all about Job's post. I must confess it is thematically similar though.
Not plagiarism at all, just similar reasoning
ReplyDeleteGreat minds and all of that... I knew you weren't acusing me of anything. Just kidding around, ol' boy.
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