With age comes cynicism, at least in my case.
Once I would trust, at face value, the statements of others. Today, well, not so much.
Rest assured I am not a discriminating cynic. I question people, companies, services, causes, and beliefs all equally.
For instance, last week I received a delivery from Arrowhead Water. It was the usual water service in every way, except one.
Arrowhead Water, since last December, has been migrating to a new and improved five gallon bottle. The new Arrowhead bottle has a super convenient handle embedded into side of the bottle.
While this made for much easier carrying it also caused me great suspicion.
How could a new 5 gallon bottle, seemingly the same in every way to the old bottle, still hold 5 gallons with a chuck taken out of it for the handle?
After a look on the Arrowhead Water web site and a call to customer service I was not satisfied that I wasn’t getting ripped off. So with help of New Media and video expert Ron (who did the camera work but left the editing to me and edited my 15 minute hack job to a viewable 5 minutes), I offer the following video.
Rest assured, no camera tricks (I don’t know any!), or other slight of hand. This is the straight scoop on the new Arrowhead Five Gallon Bottle – and exactly how much water it holds.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Caroline // Apr 2, 2009 at 2:18 pm
This is priceless! My husband & I just got our Arrowhead delivery last week and wondered the same exact thing. I being the more cynical one said, “if I find there’s not exactly 5 gallons in there, we’re switching to Sparklets”. I’ve been too busy to investigate & now you’ve saved me the time…glad I Googled my suspicions first
Great job & very entertaining to boot!
2 Not Quite Fifty // Apr 4, 2009 at 8:48 am
Thanks for the comment Caroline. I didn’t find anything at the time I Googled it so…….
Glad you enjoyed it!
3 RonAmok! » “…I Googled my suspicions…” // Apr 6, 2009 at 7:30 am
[...] experiment’s conclusion matched Rob’s intuition: Five 1-gallon Arrowhead bottles of water didn’t fit into the company’s new 5-gallon cont…. There were 10 ounces of water left [...]
4 Skeptical // Apr 26, 2009 at 4:19 pm
To prove your point, you need to do the same experiment on the old bottle. i.e., maybe it also didn’t hold a full 5 gallons.
5 los // Jun 7, 2009 at 10:47 pm
interesting video..I’m looking to cancel my sparkletts service due to them being the devil absolutely the worst, was gonna go with arrowhead..I’m gonna keep looking now..thanks
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