Surrender that Dr. Pepper (or Mr. Pibb?)

 A recent ATTEMPT to eat healthy, low fat food started Jan 1, 2008, which included cutting back on my addiction to Dr. Pepper. Yet, somehow I've found myself at Chipolte getting a steak burrito 5 times since then. I can't even bring myself to let the tortilla go and spring for the burrito bowl. Devastating news came to me that first trip of 08 at Chipolte... "Lady (yes, the woman at the register called me lady), we no give free soda to college students. Are you in high school?" Assuming she called me LADY, she knew I was not in high school.  I think to myself, actually, this may be a blessing in disguise, I won't get a Mr. Pibb (they don't have Dr. Pepper and MP is the next best bet) each time I go to Chipolte. Hell, who is actually going to pay the extra $1.39 to get a delicious, mouth watering, prune juice filled soda? NOT I! 

Yeah, right. Second trip to Chipolte I bust out my college ID card to try and scam the register worker into giving me that coveted free cup to fill with carbonated bliss. He doesn't buy it. So I buy the damn soda, proceed to fill it with only a little ice (the more ice you have the less soda you get) and I leave filling dejectedly happy. Every trip to Chipolte now costs me more then it did in 2007, which for some reason leaves me wanting it even more. Sometimes, I think that I just go out to eat for this very soda. It tastes so much better when served to you with a straw and the knowledge that soda refills are normally unlimited. 

Do you think A&E does an Intervention on soda addiction? It is a drug... at least to some people. It could make for an interesting story... "Girl, born in city her addiction stems from. Plano, TX the site and start of a deadly relationship... can her family's love save her from this addiction?"

- AA