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RC Cola
R. Alex Whitlock
Our apartment complex has a coke machine. Actually, it's an RC Cola slash Crush machine. It's only 50c a can, which is actually better than your going to get for a single can from a convenience store. It's mighty convenient, to boot.
But the first two times I tried it, it ate my money.
When Morton went to use it, I laughed at him cause he was about to get robbed like I had. Except that he put 50c in and got 5 cans of coke in return.
It's been pretty spotty ever since. It's eaten my money a couple of times, but a couple of other times it gave me a couple. I never did hit the jackpot, though. It's happened to a couple of people.
What really sucks about the machine, though, is that it's always out of RC Cola proper. Since I don't like the Crush line of fruit drinks and I get tired of RC Cherry, this bugs me. Sometimes I just want a coke or its nearest equivalent, in this case an RC Cola. And it always seems to be out. Even right after they replace them.
Today, I went down to get me an RC Cherry and there was an RC Cola sitting in the bay. So I took it. Then another fell out. So I took that one. Then another fell out. Repeat the process for eight cans in all. I didn't even put in my 50c.
Come to think of it, every time someone has gotten freebies, it's been RC Cola proper.
Using my keen detective skills, I think I've figured out why it's always out of RC Cola.
Observations
RC Cola is my favorite soft drink of all time. I don't favor Cherry RC as much as I do Cherry Coke.
Regardless, I got a little burned out on RC Cola back in College Station, and Dr. Pepper is so much more fashionable to drink in Texas.
Few things:
#1 - You should rename this post RC Lottery.
#2 - I like RC Cola better as well; it's one of the few colas I can drink. Pepsi and Coke just taste like battery acid to me.
When do you want to shift over to the new server?
Do people ever give you funny looks for taking pictures of random things there?
Actually, that vending machine reminds me of the ones at my jr. high growing up. It was a bit tricky, but once you got use to it, you could do a lot. Like 1 use to have a trick that if you selected 2 types of drinks simutaneously, and continuely pressed 1 of them you could get several soft drinks to come out.
I forget most of the other drinks, but it wasn't well known in the school so people would always wonder when someoen would come back from the vending machines with armfuls of cokes.
We gave up Diet Coke for Diet RC a while back. It's closer in taste to the original than Diet Coke or Pepsi, and is sweetened with Splenda instead of aspartame.
Aspartame, as we all know, killed Jesus.
Hey Alex,
Remember that machine in Oberholtzer that used to always give out multiple tea bottles for me?
We have an RC Cola upright machine, the top lifts up, the bottles slid across and cost 10 cents, it is is excellent condition does any one know the value. Thanks Chris
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