I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke

The diet starts NOW apparently.

I went out and actually worked by driving Uber for the first time of the new year this morning and when I came home I was greeted with this:

I didn’t think much of it because by now if you’re a regular reader, artwork is big here and there’s a new piece of artwork hanging around here daily. Besides, I was busy bringing in and putting away the groceries I picked up so I wasn’t really attentive to what the random artwork meant.

It was only after stuff got put away, and lunch was getting eaten did I notice the can of coke on the table:

For those of you that don’t read six-year-old it reads:

Don’t Drink. TOXIC

Only then while we were eating our leftover pizza I realized this can of Coke and the writing on it was a message and it was directed at me!

The message on the Coke can was pretty obvious: she doesn’t want me to drink Coke anymore.

Allow me to explain myself: There was a time when I didn’t drink soda at all and then about Covid, I got a taste for Diet Coke and before you know it I had a multiple can a day habit. One day I went to the store to refill the cart, but the price had gone up so I turned around and didn’t buy it.

I had quit. Kind of.

I didn’t go cold Turkey. If I was out and needed a drink I would stop by the dollar store and grab a Coke while I was driving.

Until today, apparently. I am now no longer to have any Coke. I have been told by the child.

This is serious, folks.

And…according to the sign above I am only allowed to eat:

• Apples

• Oranges

• Bananas

• Broccoli

• Blueberries

• Grapes

I am NOT allowed to eat:

• SODA

• DONUTS

• ICE CREAM

• CHOCOLATE

I have no idea where she got this idea, but if there’s a message here it was received loud and clear.

I will try and do my best…

In the meantime if you don’t hear from me for a few days it’s because I’ll be curled up in a ball detoxing.

Hoping the withdrawal symptoms are too bad,

TH and Co.