On the one hand, it's THREE.FREAKING.AMERICAN.DOLLARS. For a bottle of water. On a government-owned railway system. And trust me this ain't not New Zealand water or La Croix or some fancy spring water or shit either, it's like somebody went to their tap turned it on and started filling the bottles to swindle off those poor suckers on the Acela Express and the NorthEast Regional express. Grrrr.
On the other hand. Well...Amtrak is pretty nice, and it's way cheap for what it is right now, and it's so very comfortable, wish the U.S. government would put more effort into it, but it's great as it is too thank you very much. And besides if you didn't want to pay the three buckaroos you shoulda maybe just brought the water with you, or drank enough water to last your two-hour trip. And if you're really dyin' for some water without the monies to pay for it while having poorly planned before here's another idea...drink the water from the tap that's meant to wash hands. I don't think that's the worst idea in the world. I've done it in other people's homes and I'm here and alive and sure all my innards are probably dissolved or shiny green in color with all the toxic shit but I'm alive so don't be complainin' and just. pay. for. it.
The unfair thing is, everything is evenly priced. So a bottle of plain water is as much as sparkling water which by the way was the first thing I ordered they didn't have it I got handed regular water instead. Juices and sweet sodas, cans and bottles of, also cost the same.
Perhaps this is a conspiracy thing by big Sugar and Soda to convince people to optimize their money's worth...if it was the same money would you rather drink lame ole' water or water with tonne of crap added to it that sure will make it taste better but will also add like a lot of money to your medical expense later on? They don't say the part about the health of course but it's implied and easily understood.
The real deal is this. For seven buckaroos they were also selling hard seltzer beers and cheap wine. If I were the kind top be drinkin', and drinkin' on a 2-hour train ride all by themselves, I'd probably get a nice buzz for the journey. Which would take care of the anxiety about the anxiety about how expensive a bottle of water is.
Last word here: my sources in Nepal tell me considering whatever the hell is happening there, I have it is and all things considered it's pretty cheap bottled water. Yeah, fine, I'll take it!
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