Last week, I bought a 24-case of diet coke for week. This should, theoretically, last me a good 2-3 weeks. Awesome.
This morning, I got into work and found that SEVEN were missing. Seriously? Seven? What the hell? One or two, whatever… but SEVEN?
I asked around the office, and one coworker mentioned that yes, he’d taken one. That’s fine, I know if I’d been there, he would have asked and I would have said sure. Ok, so one down, six to go…
I emailed another coworker because he games here on Thursday nights… and sure enough, some of his friends STOLE my diet coke. Evidently they are douchebags, or so says one of the culprits (who, conveniently, I also play Warcraft with, so I know him pretty well). More accurately, someone saw someone else drinking a diet coke and assumed that they were there for the gamers. Ok, fine, now I know what happened, and hopefully they’ve been told that no, they’re NOT there for the gamers, and to keep their dirty stinking hands off my diet coke. I am CRANKY without my diet coke. I do customer service. Cranky is bad.
Then O’Hagan (the warcraft-playing Douchebag mentioned above) stopped by the office today with a 12 pack for me. Awww! Life is good, and I have lots of diet coke now.
I consider this scandal closed.
Apparently, the 2008 Ig Nobel Awards (for Improbable Research) had Coke (and specifically Diet Coke) play a role in the Chemistry Award:
CHEMISTRY PRIZE. Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England (USA), Deborah J. Anderson of Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (USA), for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and to Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) for discovering that it is not.
For those that found Coke works well as a spermicide, apparently Diet Coke worked better.