My Drinking Problem

By Jan Chait I don't wanna play diabetes any more. Sometimes it just gets to be too much trouble. OK, what is it now? In a word, drink choices. (Two words, then.) Once in a while, when traveling, I like to skip the water and get a soda or an iced tea. In the soda realm, there is generally one choice of sugar-free beverage: cola. I don't like cola-flavored drinks. Actually, I pretty much don't care for soda. Sugar-free iced tea? Fuhgeddaboudit. Now, this is when we're traveling on the interstate and hitting the vending machines at rest stops. On the road, when we stop at convenience stores, is another matter. And, on long trips, we generally pack drinks in an ice chest. But think about things like flying. You can't take a drink through security, and you're pretty much limited to diet cola (and, of course, water) on the other side. Trains also have their limits. In this case, however, the feeling hit while I was browsing through the drink choices for my single-serve coffee pot. Which doesn't limit itself to coffee. As it happens, I like Half ’n Half, which is half lemonade and half tea. There was a Half ’n Half choice in the company's store. It was not sugar-free. Grrrrr. You'd think with 583 1/2 choices of drinks, they'd have a sugar-free Half ’n Half. Yes, it's a petty reason, but sometimes I'd like to be just a "normal" person (whatever that is) and pick a drink without thinking about carbohydrate content. In the meantime water is good for you. I'll be t...
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