On refreshment (for a Saturday)

I pass the same truck selling watermelons everyday, at the crux of Humboldt Avenue and Division Street. Sometimes I wonder if the man sells the same melons everyday because the truck is usually unreasonably stacked and he's parked in an area that's not ready-made for foot traffic. Humboldt Park is adjacent to the truck, but there's not path or cement walkway directly leading to him. I have to wonder if he offers a drive-up watermelon service of sorts, only because there are so many cars going from here to there in the area. I have never witnessed a hand-off, but I can imagine it would be much more cumbersome than an order of fries and a Coke. I can also imagine it would be much more refreshing than either.

My mother had me pick her up a Diet Coke on Wednesday while she was helping me delouse my kitchen. She hadn't drank soda in a quite a long time, but she said she needed "something refreshing" so it fit the bill. We ordered Greek salads and drank Diet Coke on the ugliest coffee table I ever owned. It reminds me of a Family Ties episode gone awry--so wrong. It made me realize how I need to just dump all of my college and pre-college furniture for the good stuff--Ikea. Yes, I know what you're thinking. But I'm a starving artist of sorts and that kind living roomware is a splurge for the pocketbook.

But back to refreshments ... I was doing errands earlier this afternoon and decided to try one of those Dunkin' Donuts smoothies (wild berry). Good God, people--stay away, stay far away. Expecting to take in the fresh tartness that may have resembled a Jamba Juice I instead intook a gastily slurp of saccrine ... slop. The color resembled this weird flesh tone and the taste was a sweetness from Hell. I accidentally spilled some on my hand on the way out of the shop and it's still sticky, after repeatedly washing it nine times. This is a true store. I immediately dumped it in an outside trash can, less the potion left a trace of sugar toxicity in the car. I instead went home to work this afternoon and laid into my other refreshing vice du jour--salt. Instead of slurpping smoothies I am working this afternoon with a tin of pepperoncinis by my side. I wonder if the drive thru watermelon guy sells those for refreshments too?