An Experiment

About six or seven months ago (I'm not exactly sure) I purchased a bottled beverage for the humble price of $0.99. I saved the bottle, hoping to reuse it a few times maybe before I threw it out, or lost it (it survived much longer as you will hear). Since the schools can longer operate fully simply off money given to them by the state, they have reduced themselves to being mere peddlers of obesity by selling a full array of sugar-enriched carbonated beverages, sugar-based confections, sugar-and-partially-hydrogenated-soybean-oil-based confections, and many other equally gut-expanding items of food. Anyway, people tend to be very partial to these products, and the bottled beverages are certainly no exception. When most people are done with their 20 oz., tooth-rotting friend that they purchased for $1.00, they chuck the bottle squarely into the trash. Even when a recycling bin is nearby, the trash is typically favored (I have a number of theories on why this is, and most of them are very disturbing). People have found me to be "weird" when I have commented that they should maybe reuse them once or twice as a waterbottle, or even, heaven-forbid, recycle them!! To show these people their wastefulness, I resolved to reuse this plastic bottle that I had purchased with flavored water in it, for $0.99, until it broke. Although I was indeed criticized for doing so and attempts were made to sabotage the bottle, I made it last up until today, six or seven months after I purchased it. Alas! I dropped it on the floor in third period today and the top cracked. Everyone seemed to be a little bit happier when I told them.
Some really cool waterbottles are here though: www.sigg.ch