Who wants Brominated Vegetable Oil...?

My day has started off pretty well, but there is one seriously messed up thing happening right now. Right now, at this very moment, there is an opened 20oz bottle of Mountain Dew sitting on my desk. I am about to take a sip . . . oh, I just did. And you know what, even at 8:40 AM, it isn't all that bad.

I don't know how desperate I must have been to purchase a Mountain Dew this morning. It defies logic. The reason I was forced to get a Mountain Dew instead of my usual orange juice was that the vending machine is no longer accepting change. And I don't think it's out of order, I think the damn thing is possessed! It keeps making this clicking sound like it's trying to return change. *click*click*click*click*click*click*click*click nonstop, all day long.

So anyway, the orange juice bottles are $1.25, so I needed two singles if I were going to obtain a delicious orange juice. Well, I had zero singles, so I had to scrounge for change to barter. I found about a dollar fifty, which wasn't going to cut the coca butter. But, I exchanged my coins for one dollar with the local currency clerk (the lady who sits next to me) and I had to settle for one of the 85 cent beverages instead of the orange juice. I decided on Mountain Dew because it is, after all, mostly orange juice. In fact, the third ingredient listed under the contents is "Concentrated Orange Juice and Other Natural Flavors." So really I got my orange juice; I just got a few extra things as well. Things like Erythorbic Acid and Sodium Citrate. Things like Brominated Vegetable Oil, Gum Arabic, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate, High Fructose Corn Syrup, carbonated water....oh, and my two personal favorites Caffeine and Yellow 5. Mmmmm...Yellow Dye number 5. *mouth waters*