(delurking)

Brad Cooley wrote:

> If anyone has any other suggestions, I would be glad to hear them.  I
> really would like to stop drinking sodas for good.  Rachel, your
> description of the effects of soda is probably enough to get me to quit for
> a while: "imagine what the soda is doing to your insides---corroding
> your teeth, stomach, bones."  I think I will put a big sign on the soda
> machine that says "Battery Acid"!

        When I was a child, we were going on vacation, one morning, for about
three weeks.  As was my habit then, I drank about a six pack of
pepsi...a day.  I poured one into a ceramic cup, took a hit off it, and
being a kid, left it on the kitchen counter.  We came back, and, once we
cleaned (rather I was made to) out the cup, found the soda had literally
EATEN a good 1/4" out of the inside of the cup.  Put me offa soda for a
good couple years...

        (relurking)