There's a Coke machine outside of my office with a note on it that asks people to wait a minute or so before opening their bottles, as soda has been spilling out all over the carpet directly in front of the machine.
On the note, someone scrawled "Machine Defect?" in a loopy kind of way.
I guess in some ways it could be a machine defect, like Coke made a mistake when they built the machine, and the bottles should travel a gentler journey before plopping out of the machine. But I've never in my life seen a machine built to cushion the bottle or can from being shaken up on the way.
It has me wondering whether the person who wrote those two words has seen such a machine. And if they have, where was it, and what was it like?
I mean, why do I have to wait fifteen very long seconds before opening my bottle when I could just yank the top off immediately and begin drinking with no fear of carbonation-induced overflow?
If there really is a defect in our Coke machine, why hasn't Coke been out to fix it?
I went to Coke's website to see if there was an answer there, but nothing happened.
Actually, I ended up reading all kinds of junk about a Coke Card, which obviously wasn't doing anything for me. I even began thinking of scrawling "browser defect?" across my screen, but then I remembered that I'm the only one who uses my screen.
Finally, somehow, I found the normal Coke page, which is the one I've linked to. But there was no answer there, either, so don't bother going.
In the end, I guess I'm going to have to suffer with whoever our mystery writer was.
Unless YOU know about the secret, gentle Coke machine.
