free?

On any given weekday, when I walk through the Financial District of San Francisco, I receive more free stuff than a single mother on welfare with three tots. Candy bars, coupons, brochures, political propaganda, sexual favors ( no wait, that's Polk St.), Jamba Juice in a bottle, the new energy drink from Starbucks(?). Regardless, I grab it all; remember, it's free, a phrase that is never used in the Financial District, ever.

Today's loveliness that was mindlessly pilfered on to the unbeknownst population was Pepsi Max. I, of course, grabbed one and I am enjoying it at this very moment. Yum? Maybe, it kinda tastes like diet soda , which I hate, but the interesting thing is that it tastes more like Diet Coke than Diet Pepsi (I drank way too much soda in my adolescence). Anyway, what's the point you ask? What makes it different than Pepsi One or Coke Zero? Well, it supposedly has no calories, carbs, sugar or anything else for that matter. It basically doesn't exist. It's figment soda (Pepsi Figment?). 

Regardless, it makes me feel good, not because of its "health" benefits but because it makes me feel like the Neo who took the correct pill and now has the information to realize that the soda he's drinking isn't real. Pepsi to the Max indeed!