AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 ----- BODY: Today marks a very special day in Chicago...it's time to uncork the bubbly and push the kids onto the school bus. Yes, most of the kiddies began the 2005-2006 school year and timing as they say, is everything. A report was just released saying that Americans as a whole, are fat slobs. The argument is that cafeterias like this one in Naperville promote bad eating habits by supplying teens with salty snacks and sugar water. What happens now? Those vending machines get a padlock on them (OK, it's a timer) and will be shut down and out of business during normal school hours. That means no Dorito's and Coca-Colas. One thing that school officials can't control however, is what kids sneak in from home. How would they do that anyway? If school officials don't see weapons coming in, how would they ever notice a bottle of Pepsi?! What a mess! What's even more of a mess is the fact that these kids are allowed to leave campus at lunchtime and go down the street to one of the gazillion fast food eateries. Maybe the people that suggested banning vending machines are targeting the wrong supplier of junk food and should turn off the electricity at McDonald's and Burger King instead. Leave the Coke machines open! It's a good source of income and if the kids want to spend 75 cents on a can of soda pop, let them go crazy. Coca-Cola fought a long and hard battle with Pepsi to get the winning bid to put these machines in schools. Shut them down for 8 hours and that's money lost. Also, it doesn't matter if you visit stop in for a visit at a school in Naperville or the break room at Wal-Mart, let's face it, the vending machines are a gathering place for people to sit down and drink their pop and eat their chips and talk about plans for the weekend. Without those machines spitting out crap like a slot machine, the youth of today will have no social skills and that will make an already stressful situation of attending high school even worse. Let the soda flow like Niagara Falls! THAT'S the way I see it today. -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: Uh oh! "What do we do now?"

Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Uh oh! "What do we do now?"

Today marks a very special day in Chicago...it's time to uncork the bubbly and push the kids onto the school bus. Yes, most of the kiddies began the 2005-2006 school year and timing as they say, is everything. A report was just released saying that Americans as a whole, are fat slobs. The argument is that cafeterias like this one in Naperville promote bad eating habits by supplying teens with salty snacks and sugar water. What happens now? Those vending machines get a padlock on them (OK, it's a timer) and will be shut down and out of business during normal school hours. That means no Dorito's and Coca-Colas. One thing that school officials can't control however, is what kids sneak in from home. How would they do that anyway? If school officials don't see weapons coming in, how would they ever notice a bottle of Pepsi?! What a mess! What's even more of a mess is the fact that these kids are allowed to leave campus at lunchtime and go down the street to one of the gazillion fast food eateries. Maybe the people that suggested banning vending machines are targeting the wrong supplier of junk food and should turn off the electricity at McDonald's and Burger King instead. Leave the Coke machines open! It's a good source of income and if the kids want to spend 75 cents on a can of soda pop, let them go crazy. Coca-Cola fought a long and hard battle with Pepsi to get the winning bid to put these machines in schools. Shut them down for 8 hours and that's money lost. Also, it doesn't matter if you visit stop in for a visit at a school in Naperville or the break room at Wal-Mart, let's face it, the vending machines are a gathering place for people to sit down and drink their pop and eat their chips and talk about plans for the weekend. Without those machines spitting out crap like a slot machine, the youth of today will have no social skills and that will make an already stressful situation of attending high school even worse. Let the soda flow like Niagara Falls! THAT'S the way I see it today.

posted by Dave Sypniewski at Wednesday, August 24, 2005

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