To Whom It May Concern

Winner!!! Of H7UT 83VF!!!

I really shouldn't drink soda. It's not good for you, it's fattening, it's bad for your teeth, it's not really all that cheap anymore either. But the fact is, I enjoy soda, so as long as I cut back, and continue to work out, that will be alright.

I can't stand Coke. I have drank it before, but only in cases where it was free. I have never in my life purchased a Coca Cola, I just don't like the taste that much and given a choice I will buy a Pepsi. The fact is, most people cannot tell the difference between the two. Oh, most of you think you can, but you can't, that was proven to me in an experimental psychology class while in college, I was one of only 2 people out of 45 who could consistently tell the difference between the two.

Most soda companies have these little contests, typically the low end prize is a free soda, and the high end will be a large cash sum or a new car or some such thing. I've won some ball caps and a couple tshirts, but generally I'm happy to spin the cap off a bottle and read the inside of the cap, and you win a free soda, it's like "YES, buy one get one free!!" sort of thing.

This is what would be commonly called an "INSTANT WINNER!!!" Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. Oh the prizes are pretty much the same, but you can't win anything instantly anymore. Now you spin the bottle cap off, and you win a 28ZO 8IW8, awesome huh? Then you have to go to your computer, log into a special website set up just to take some personal information from you, so that the soda manufacturer can send you a bunch of fucking shit spam mail about things that you don't give a crap about, to even have a chance to win a prize.

And if you do win, well, you probably won't know anyway. You have to enter your code and then THEY will send you an email, IF you win. Most email providers will send those emails to the spam folder because they recognize them as emails sent out in bulk. So basically the entire process is a complete joke except to the really persistent no lifers who have the time to scan their entire spam folder to see if they won, and they likely haven't anyway...

So, needless to say I don't give a shit anymore, I don't even try to play the game, it's pointless and it's too much effort just so that you can get more junk mail from a company looking to get more information about the consumers who use their products. Screw em all!!!