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Observations about Ice, Fountain Drinks and Public Restrooms
Thos are important elements on a road trip.
As I’ve mentioned previously, my wife, son and I moved from Florida back to Oklahoma. We spent two days enduring that drive. It did give me time to do some deep thinking. I thought deep thoughts of fountain drinks, ice and bathrooms. If you look very closely, you will find a link between those three. I’ll start with ice.
Has the southeastern portion of the United States lost the recipe for ice?
Those two days were long and tiring. They were made worse by a lack of ice. When we stopped to check into our motel on a Tuesday night we were looking forward to a cold drink. That would have been much easier if the motel/dive we stayed at had a working ice machine.
While they didn’t have a working ice machine, they did have a functional soft drink machine that would spit out a 12 ounce can of pop for $1.75. Maybe it was just marketing genius on their part.
Continuing the lack of ice theme, we stopped at Burger King the next day. I placed my order, went over to get my drink and discovered both ice machines were empty. Hoping to get a resolution to the problem, I informed an employee who told me, “We don’t have any ice.”
