Pony-sized beer and water.

Girlfriend-size beer bottles may be one of the cutest inventions out there. But I'm not so sure about the pony-sized Poland Spring water bottles.

I've always been a bulk buying kind of girl. My tiny Brooklyn apartment doesn't stop me from stocking up on enormous cans of tomatoes, 5 pound bags of flour and the giant olive oil tin. That's why, when I saw a woman on the late night subway take out the tiniest bottle of Poland Spring water, take one gulp before it was gone, I wanted to cry out, "you've been bamboozled!" Instead, I'll vent on my blog.

At New York Beverage, where beverages can be bought at a discounted rate, a 24-pack of the baby waters goes for $11.99. Even if the packaged one-sip was purchased as part of a bulk multi-pack, that's still $.50/bottle. In these tough economic times that's a price so steep it's going to make a lot of people broke --or dehydrated.

But in the end, the bottle size decision should be left to your purse. Apparently Poland Spring (Nestle) conducted an interview with the bottle itself which said, "Small bags love me." A bottle that can talk. Hmm. Maybe that's one point for the baby bottle.