"Andrew Gideon" wrote

Coffee in a box, though, confused me. When I first saw it, I thought it a
terrific idea! I only later learned that the idea is to share it with
others, driving out of individual cups. Oh, well.

Yep, their are some different ideas for things we all take for granted.

I was in Ecuador a few years back, and was on a small road trip on the Pan
American Highway. By the way, you may have one idea about that road, but it
is really a wide patch of varying surfaces. Sometimes minimal blacktop,
sometimes gravel, sometimes a deep pothole, all away across the width of the
road, necessitating traversing the hole at 1 MPH.... or pay the doctor.

Anyway, we stopped for some gas, a pee, and a drink. We finally got it
across what we wanted, and the lady took the coke, got a plastic sandwich
baggy, opened it up and poured the drink into the bag. She stuck a straw in
it, and twisted it around the straw.

Our jaws dropped, but there it was.

It seems as though the people selling the coke have to pay deposit on the
bottles, and most people want the nickel back, right then, so that is how
they get the drink, and the nickel back for the bottle. Different, that is
for sure!
--
Jim in NC