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4.4 Icees per month

March 30, 2009 by Lloyd 17 Comments

I love Icees. They are the best thing to drink in the whole world. Lauren would like to put a soda fountain in the kitchen, but I say an Icee machine. She can always let the Icee melt. Lauren has come up with all sorts of reasons for me to have some number fewer than 4.4 Icees a month, and I have had to adapt. My first line of defense is to get them when she doesn’t know about it. So I always have an Icee on Bad Movie Night and when I fill up with gas. But when I fill up with gas I have to get one in a 32 once plastic cup, and Lauren can smell those a mile away (she thinks they end up in the Pacific Ocean, I point out that they are recyclable).

However, we have reached a detente of sorts. I can get Icees if I have a cup with me. So I always travel prepared. The cups are in the back seat. The straws are under the visor (in case you ever need one). I’m the only person who brings Wal*Mart cups into the Wal*Marts.

Hmmm, I seem to be running low.

Long, no spoon.

Filed Under: Cheap, Eco-Freaky, Lloyd Tagged With: car, green, icee

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  1. Brad says

    March 31, 2009 at 3:22 am

    I think you meant to say you reached an “al dente” of sorts. Lauren is being firm, but not hard, about her plastic rule. She’s “al dente”.

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    • Lloyd says

      March 31, 2009 at 5:09 am

      I’ll thank you not to talk about my wife that way, sir.

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      • Lauren says

        March 31, 2009 at 5:18 am

        I don’t know -- ‘to the tooth’/’to the bite’ -- sounds rather apt, I’d say. 🙂

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  2. Brad says

    March 31, 2009 at 3:26 am

    Speaking of Icees, I just realized this past year that when people talk about “brain freeze”, they really do mean that their heads hurt. I do not experience brain freeze. My throat may hurt if I drink an Icee too fast, but my head never feels it.

    I wonder how many people don’t brain freeze. Maybe the government should research it. Maybe I should. Do you think I could get a grant?

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    • Deanne says

      March 31, 2009 at 8:03 am

      That’s so interesting. I never knew there were people who didn’t experience brain freeze!

      Reply
    • Lloyd says

      March 31, 2009 at 1:00 pm

      No brain freeze here either, but I too can get the frozen throat. I actually thought that’s what a brain freeze was. I wondered why they called it that.

      Reply
    • ratty says

      March 31, 2009 at 1:54 pm

      i’m wondering if ‘brain freeze’ has anything to do with ‘brain SIZE’?? brain too small? brain too large?
      hrmm. either way, i think i’ll NOT ‘fess up… heh.

      Reply
  3. Beth says

    March 31, 2009 at 5:18 am

    I seem to forget that I can get icees at Wal*Mart (why do you use an asterisk?). I need to remember that more often. Like, ever.

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    • Lauren says

      March 31, 2009 at 5:20 am

      It’s the only reason that Lloyd will go grocery shopping with me -- the bribe of an Icee.

      Reply
    • Lloyd says

      March 31, 2009 at 5:33 am

      Because I don’t have a star key (on some computers you can use [alt]-F4).

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      • Beth says

        March 31, 2009 at 6:06 am

        I, apparently, do not have a star key. Because I tried and it instantaneously closed the tab. Instantaneously, I say.

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  4. Deborah says

    March 31, 2009 at 6:36 am

    What kind of Icee is that? Pumpkin?

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    • Lloyd says

      March 31, 2009 at 9:07 am

      It doesn’t even look a tiny little bit like pumpkin. Not at all. No sir.

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      • Deborah says

        March 31, 2009 at 5:37 pm

        You’re right. It doesn’t look like pumpkin. It looks like “yellow yucky”. Let me know if you need an explanation.

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        • Peggy says

          March 31, 2009 at 6:09 pm

          Maybe it’s Plasma flavored. It’s the exact color of blood plasma. I know because there’s a picture of my plasma in my phone.

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          • Lauren says

            March 31, 2009 at 7:37 pm

            Heh. You two funny.

            It’s cola, because that’s the only kind of Icee LLoyd likes. In fact, when he sees that a place (say -- Runza) only has blue and red Icees he’ll say, “I’ll take a cola Icee.” They’ll respond, “Sorry, we just have blue or red.” Lloyd will scoff and say, “Pffff. Why bother?”

            That’s right, folks. An Icee snob.

  5. Peggy says

    March 31, 2009 at 11:28 am

    I’ve been told numerous times that my brain seems to be in a never ending brain freeze. Does that count as a yes?

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