Nathanael Rowe

Here is another funny story from almost 10 years ago.

When I was in high school I worked at Hollywood Video on Spring st in East Long Beach.  For some reason we had a plethera of expired sodas, specifically Pepsi product.  Now I don’t know exactly how the whole legalities work when it comes to selling expired sodas, but we did.  So many of the sodas that sat in that fridge were actually expired.  Well I knew this, and so I justified to my self, stealing the sodas since they were expired anyways.  I would also occasionally hook my friends up with an expired soda as well, cause who really cares right?

Well one day Ron Delaney comes into Hollywood Video while I am working, and if you know anything about Ron it that he is quite the stickler when it comes to spending, so anything that is free he is excited about, as am I on many occasions.  So Ron asks if there are any expired Pepsis and if there is could he have one for free.  I say sure if you can find an expired soda, go ahead and just have it.  He of course promptly found some expired Pepsi One, and proceeded to open it up and drink it.  Meanwhile he is hanging out in the store and just talking to me while I have another boring day at work.

After a few minutes go by, Ron says his stomach is hurting him, and that he thinks its from the Pepsi being bad.  Almost immediately, as if he had planned it, he lays down on his back on the floor right in the front of the store.  Remember customers are going in and out this whole time, and he is on the floor grabbing his stomach and screaming, “Don’t drink the Pepsi, The Pepsi is bad!”

I was furious, the nerve of this guy to complain about the free soda I gave him.  I promptly kicked him out of the store, and never gave away free expired soda again, especially to some one so ungrateful.