In which I think my world is weird.

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n advertisement outside a gas station:

Image of two plastic bottles of soda. Price of $2.50 above them. Text says, “Wow!”

The image is printed in full color on cardboard that will be thrown away shortly.

The product is sugar water in plastic bottles.

The sweetener is HFCS, implicated in a myriad of health problems. The container is plastic, which is expensive to produce, expensive to recycle, and impossible to get rid of.

I have no idea if $2.50 is a good price for two bottles of soda, but I do know that you can dissolve pennies in it.