I guess America does not actually run on dunkin...

[ratheripped.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to get back into running and on my jog today I was getting to the point where I was about to keel over and pass out if I didn't rehydrate soon. I figured I could just walk into a highland ave dunkin and get a quick cup of tap water and be on my way. Apparently they demanded "25 cents for the cup". Are you kidding me? I've never heard of such bullsh*t - is this some sort of sick work around? I thought it was was illegal to refuse someone tap water for free.

Can someone help me out here? I usually go to that dunkin all the time and now I'm honestly thinking about straight up taking my caffeine addiction business elsewhere.

Comments

[kalimba21.livejournal.com]

It certainly makes me lust for the pre bottled water days when whole cities were punctuated with public water fountains both indoors and out. We were a more hydrated nation back then.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I am 45 and don't remember this being the case in Boston in my childhood.

There were bubblers on the Public Garden and Boston Common that are now gone, though. But I don't think they were removed because of pressure from the bottled-water industry; I think they were removed because they were constantly being vandalized. (This is why we can't have nice things!)

[dianamp04.livejournal.com]

There are at least a few in the Garden still, I pass one regularly and think "eww what's touched that" a lot.