Drink Fountains!!

Soft Drink fountain

I made a post about American dining here, but it was somewhat limited to dinning in restaurants. Now the American fast food experience is a totally different one, as you would see in this post.
Fast food over here really goes by its name,and it is not like some fast food in Ghana where you have to wait over 30 minutes for your food. First they have the drive-thrus' where you order your food and get delivery of it just be well, driving through. With no queue cars ahead of you, you can get your drive-through food in a minute.

Now if you want to actually, eat the food inside, you must first go to the counter. The menu is normally on a big screen and each food item has a number. To be on a safe side, I always order by mentioning the number. I don't have time to be repeating myself and mentioning the numbers does the trick for me. In a few minutes, your order would be mentioned, and then you must pick the tray with the food and go to another area(I don't know the name yet) where they have the plastic spoons, fork, napkins, straws, anything you would need to help you eat the food. The best part for me is the drink fountain, yes the fountain. If you want a drink, you would indicate the size of cup you want, and I don't really understand why this is because with the fountain you can go as many times as you want. Why pay for a large cup if you can drink twice with a small cup. So my first time of using the fountain, I decided to quickly finish my drink so I could go for another round. It wasn't an easy task because I was already full, but I wasn't ready to let free drink to go to waste.
After eating, you would have to clear your table and empty the tray by yourself, I didn't know this because I thought it was all part of the service. I had this very embarrassing situation at Starbucks, and I quickly learnt to always clean up after eating.You see after getting my coffee, I went to the area where they had the sugar, and in the process of putting sugar in my coffee it poured on the floor. I apologized to the woman who was by me, since some of the coffee splashed on her.  I proceeded to leave when I noticed that she had taken some tissue and was cleaning my mess for me. By the time I took more tissue to help, she had already cleaned it and I was very shy.It was so obvious I was going to leave the spilled coffee on the floor, so there was nothing I could tell her, I just hurriedly with  left the coffee shop with all eyes following me.After that incident, I never forgot to clean up after myself anytime I ate at a fast food.

 Sometimes I wonder how it would be like if we had drink fountains in Ghana. I already know how people I behave when there I go for a  buffet. Its like I have to eat to secure my stomach for the next 2 days. Also, during parties, I see the way people pack food back home because, well it is free. I am guessing that if there are drink fountains in Ghana, people would definitely go more than 3 times, and the business would have to resort to putting a cap on the number of times you fill your cup.

Now talking about fountains, I have realized that in America, there are free water fountains everywhere,especially at public places and I still haven't gotten used to the idea of drinking water from a fountain. I don't even know where the water comes from and all kinds of people use it. I don't even know how I to structure my mouth to receive the water from the fountain, so it doesn't look like I would be trying it anytime soon

Water Fountain