Occasionally, I grab breakfast from the cafeteria and eat it in my office while doing email. And a long with my breakfast, I enjoy a nice container of skim milk. And over the years I have noticed a trend. On certain days, there is no milk. No milk in the cafeteria, no milk in the snack bars, no milk any where on the campus. Simple, no milk.

I am not sure what the problem is. It appears that the milk man only stocks the shelves once every two weeks. Is there not enough room on the shelves for extra milk? Is there a conspiracy with the soft drink vendors to limit the choices of healthy beverages? Is this a case of poor management on the part of the food vendors?

Maybe they are concerned that if they stock too much milk, they will have to throw out whatever doesn’t sell. But I doubt that they have ever had to throw out much milk because they consistently run out of milk, every two weeks, you can count on it. And it is not just one day that they are out of milk; they are out of milk for about 3 days before they get restocked. What a way to run a business.

So, for 3 days, if I want milk with my breakfast, I have to bring it from home which can be a real pain. If not, I have to resign my self to drinking water. Bah!