Quit Paying Twice for Water!

We never could have seen this one coming, could we? Hold on to your bottled water, but ...

Aquafina is actually tap water!

And guess what? Because people are sufficiently hooked on bottled water and conditioned to purchasing it, nobody will really care much.

This "revelation" brings to mind one of Spot's primary pet peeves. (Betcha didn't know that a pet could have a pet peeve, did you?) :)

WHY DO PEOPLE PAY TWICE FOR WATER? Most humans pay a monthly fee for water service in their homes, and that includes tap water -- which by all accounts is pretty darn safe to drink. You don't get a whole lot of reports of populations getting sick and dying from drinking tap water. (Well, at least here in our fine country.)

Even so, a high percentage of our human population turns around and buys bottled tap water at the store, at vending machines, at sporting events, at the beach ... it goes on and on. It's not uncommon to pay $1 per bottle of the stuff. Well, guess what -- you can buy water bottles at the store for about $1 apiece, fill them with home tap water, put them in the fridge for a couple of hours, and you have effectively eliminated the need to buy bottled water.

The insanity even stretches to restaurants, which offer bottled water as a premium beverage. Good Lord in Heaven above, it's the same stuff that you'd get if you'd ask for tap water.

The food service industry is not only laughing all the way to the bank on this one, it is gasping, hyperventilating, gagging and screaming in joy. Let it be howled from the highest curb -- Spot will never purchase tap water in a bottle from a grocery store, street vendor, restaurant, liquor store, beverage mart, gas station convenience store or vending machine. I'm not in a position, nor of the disposition, to pour money down the drain.

Just Call Him Life Saver, Not ...

I just love it whenever I hear about a pooch who has gone above and beyond the call of duty. Is there a better one than the story about Zoey, who saved a 1-year-old from being bitten by a rattlesnake by jumping in front of the lunging serpent and taking the bites?

There's no doubt that they should rename this rover Life Saver, and not because he tastes like roll candy. And while we all love Life Savers of both the heroic and sugary kind, this Life Saver answered the question posed in this blog.

I pray that this renaming fate does not befall this heroic quadriped.

This Little Piggy Went to the Mall

Well, wouldn't you know it? A small porker, not meaning any harm to anyone, takes an afternoon outing to a major shopping mall, and what happens? The police go gonzo, respond with shotguns ready to blaze.

This wasn't exactly Osama bin Piggy that they were trying to track down. It was just a harmless little oinker probably looking for something dirty to wallow in -- perhaps the latest from N'Sync.

Reminds Spot of the old joke, "How Many Piggys Does it Take to Capture a Piglet?" In this case, not enough on the force.