My wife and I have this thing that we call the best Coke ever. Coca-Cola drinkers, I think you know what I am talking about.
Now, for some reason, the Best Coke Ever doesn’t come in a plastic bottle or from a soda fountain. It only comes from aluminum cans, or from glass bottles. If you can find them, Coke in glass bottles are considered the Best, Best Coke Ever. Sometimes, it doesn’t even happen from a bottle or can at all. Sometimes it just doesn’t happen.
But when it does happen, it’s something spectacular.
It rarely happens from Coke purchased from convenience stores. They simply because don’t keep their refrigerators cold enough.
It happens when you open that can and take the first gulp from a can that can be held for a minute at first, but after that, it’s almost too cold to hold.
As you take that first gulp, you can feel coldness run down the back of your throat. Your blood vessels in your head constrict, not enough to give you brain freeze, but riding that fine line between pain and pleasure.
You can feel the coldness push through your ear canals, almost as if that cold, tan, foamy goodness is about to spill from your ears onto your shoulders.
Behind your eyes the temperature in your head drops. Maybe it’s only a degree or two, but it feels colder. The sensation makes you want to roll your eyes into the back of your head, but you resist.
Simultaneously, the refreshing sensation runs down your throat , little by little, lining your esophogeal walls.
The battle between 34.9 F and your body temperature of 98.6 F ensues until it brings everything back to center. The physics of heat exchange cools your body until finally you can feel it pour into your stomach.
The tempurature levels out and everything ceases. The sensation is gone.
Inevitably, the second sip isn’t the same. Nor are the consecutive sips.
It’s only the first one.
The balance, the exact middle of pleasure and pain; The sweet taste and acidic qualities of this guilty pleasure; That one moment in time, so pleasurable, yet so fleeting. You want it to last forever, but you know, if it lasted forever, there would be no such thing as The Best Coke Ever.
If your mouth isn’t watering after this, then maybe you’re part of the Pepsi Generation.
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Mmmmm….Yes…Coca Cola addict here! Need ice cold coke with ice cubes from a can into a glass! Dont you hate it when they give you watered down coke in restaurants? Ruins your whole meal.
I would rather drink water when that happens!