RinkWorks: Stupid Emails: A Drinking Taboo

501. A Drinking Taboo

To:  <sam@rinkworks.com>
Subject:  I Think submission
Date:  Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:03:37

Have you ever thought about how much energy we would conserve if
drinking from the carton wasn't so taboo in most of the homes in the
world?  Here's food for thoguht;  The carton costs energy just to make
it and ship it.  Then there is filling the carton with whatever
substance someone spent energy to make.  Shipped again.  Once it reaches
the fridge section of the store, it sits there, costing energy to keep
cold, waiting for someone to say "I choose YOU Pikachu!" to it and take
it home to slowly kill off by draining it of it's fluids.  But we don't
do this like Dracula, do we?   No, we walk to the fridge, take the
carton out, set it on the counter, walk to the cabinet, get a drinking
vessel of the capacity that pleases us, walk back to the counter, open
the carton, pour the fluid out into the vessel and (hopefully) put the
carton back in the fridge.  Dracula wouldn't be caught DEAD getting a
drinking vessel from the cabinet. Nope.  Dracula drinks directly from
the tap, doesn't he?  I mean, how silly would Dracula look if he told
his victim "Wait right there, I need to get something to put your blood
in."...  I think we should all be more like Dracula and drink directly
from the carton.  That would eliminate ALOT of silly steps we take to
avoid being taboo.