Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:24:26 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fifth Friday
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

lee gilliland wrote:

> P.S.: The Gillilands do the same.
>
> I protest!  Don't stock up for me, Keith, but I am a lifelong Pepsi drinker
> (who
> switched to Diet Pepsi when I discovered I was diabetic), who has long been
> mildly annoyed by the total absense of Pepsis in the WSFA coolers.
>
> --Ted White
>
> And again, I agree with Erica.
>
> Bring your own Goddam Pepsi.  Had you guys the class to ASK FOR IT at an
> appropriate time such as a phone call before the meeting or a mention AT the
> meeting, it would have been different.  I'm suprised at you, Ted.  I thought
> you had better manners.

Hold on a minute.  *My* manners are not at issue.  The simple fact is that, at
roughly annual intervals, I *have* made polite inquiries and suggestions --
almost always to Alexis, who probably recalls them -- and on each occasion I was
told that WSFA chooses Coke over Pepsi.  And I have had a Diet Coke without
complaint.  (Last lst Friday meeting even those disappeared.  I suspect that
more and more people are switching from sugared to diet/non-sugared sodas.)

It's a rare meeting when Alexis and I don't talk food -- as I have also on
occasion with the Lynches -- and I take modest pride in having suggested curry
powder to Alexis for his deviled eggs.

If it mattered That Much to me, I'd *bring* a Diet Pepsi -- I normally do
provide my own at writers' group meetings and other informal functions I
attend.  I brought this up on this list *solely* after Erica made the statement
that WSFA won't drink Pepsi products, to offer myself as a counter-example.

--Ted White