Beware the Straws of Zion

Here's a quick anecdote (of the humorous variety) from the trip out west.

We were having lunch at the Castle Rock Diner in Zion N.P. It was Memorial Day weekend, and the park was packed with families, etc. While I was waiting in line at the soda machine to fill up our drink cups, there was a young boy in front of me, at the counter, with a handfull of straws from the straw dispenser. It was the kind of straw dispenser where you push down the lever and a straw slides down out of the dispenser (a very common design). Well, this young boy was trying to put his handful of straws back into the dispenser. I mean, his hands were all over those straws! After trying to force the straws back up into the dispenser, he lifted the lid of the dispenser and put them all back into it at once. At just about this point, his mother spotted him and yelled at him; but the straws were back in the dispenser.

Word to the wise: Don't use the straws if there are kids around.