You know what soft drink I miss? (They may call it pop, soda, or Coke in your corner of the world; I’ve always known them as soft drinks myself. Anyway). There’s been some that I’ve seen come and go over the years: Sprite Remix, Mountain Dew Pitch Black, Mountain Dew Live Wire (that one kept me up all night, which wasn’t so bad because I was reading Brian Jacques’ The Long Patrol of the Redwall series at the time, but I digress). The one soft drink I miss the most, though, is Vault.
Oh, it was magical. Picture Mountain Dew with just a smidge more citrus and a bit of a kick, and you get Vault. I started college with Vault; it was in all the vending machines around campus and in the college bookstore. I worked a third shift job unloading packages at UPS to help pay for said college; you know what was a real treat from White Castle or a gas station after getting off work? Vault. Ah, good times.
But alas, all good things indeed come to an end. Slowly I noticed the Vault becoming harder to find. First the vending machines didn’t carry it, then the bookstore. At last only White Castle had it, and when the fateful day came when they only had Sprite, oh, then I was truly wretched.
Okay, not wretched exactly, but the point stands. Oh, sure, I had Mountain Dew and of course Mello Yello after that, but all the same; I do miss Vault. You can still see it, like a lingering memory, in the background shelves of a scene in the disaster movie 2012, specifically the one where the writer guy’s ex-wife Kate is in the grocery store talking to her boyfriend Gordon. The floor starts cracking and the crack’s heading towards them, and as it goes you can see it pass a whole shelf of Vault soft drinks. I always sigh a little sigh of regret at that moment. (I mean, it’s a disaster movie so there’s lots of sad moments, this one’s near the bottom certainly, but all the same).
Writing Update
In writing news, Gaseous Girl: The Winds of Time is definitely past the halfway point, and so I have decided on the next serial after that. For those of you who’ve come to know and admire Captain Happily Married from my weekly Ask the Captain column, my next serial will explore the Captain’s original story, wherein he gains his mystical powers from the Unity Candle of Gengulphus! How, you ask? Only one way to find out!
(This is the part where I lay out my outline: I don’t have one, really. I have the idea, which is the sentence above, and the main character, the Captain, and I know obviously Super Soccer Mom will be in there too. I don’t have the main bad guy yet, but it’ll come eventually, hopefully before I actually start the serial. That’ll be all-new stuff too, not imported from Wordpress like Gaseous Girl was, so keep a lookout, folks!
Closing Time
Here’s an oldie but a goodie: fourteen years ago this was, and it’s still funny. The best part is, evidently they’re still married to this day.
Until next time,
Michael
Michael that video at the end had us in STITCHES omg the princess bride reference