You may just have gotten a missed bottle. It's happened to me before...everyone else around swilling the stuff while I'm trying to get mine open. Thanks for you're kind word about volunteers (Have YOU vol'd recently folks?) but sometimes there just aren't enough to get some things done in a timely manner...
It was just the safety on a bottle...considering all the things that can go wrong on race day, if that was your only problem, you were lucky.
BTW..swearing at or verbally accosting the volunteers can get you penalized. I'm sad too, that you feel someone apologizing for what happened is a "wise ass." Maybe they truly felt bad about it.

Instead of cursing at the volunteers, maybe you could contact the RD and let him/her know what happened. If anyone can fix it for future races, he can.

At the begining of Pacific Crest on Saturday the announcers were saying that if anyone was cought verbally abusing the volunteers or swearing at them they would be DQ'd. They went as far as to say that they would be audio/vidio recording (not sure I believe that part) the aid stations for this. At the time I thought and verbally said "What jack ass would swear at, or verbally abuse a VOLUNTEER?" Everyone in my area agreed. Well...........

Referring to a volunteer as a water boy was a classy touch as well.

What about the time you caught your cape in your chainring? Messy.

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If that is the worse thing that happens to you consider yourself lucky.

Exactly. Try: flat tires, broken spokes, gum in the brake pads (picked up from road), pump that popped out and stuck between the spokes (over the handle bars on that one) at the bottom of a gigantic ascent, gravel on a corner (road rash on that one) on a gigantic descent, course volunteers missing from strategic corner, goggles kicked off in the swim leaving bleeding gash on cheek, toe dislocated in swim, bike knocked off of transition rack by other cyclist, spilling all fluid and bento box contents, and probably a few more that I've forgotten over the years. Racing is unpredictable. Stuff happens. Usually most competitors and certainly all volunteers are well-meaning and trying to help you have the best day possible. Be kind to them. Better than that, thank every one of them as you go by!

I'm actually surprised that the course in question had bottle stations for an Oly distance. Most don't. You're lucky they were there at all, you are pretty much supposed to carry enough fluids to get you through the bike course in almost every Oly I've ever raced (Federal Escape in Washington is the one exception I can think of).

I would like everyone to know that I started the trend by putting up a real pic of myself...

I agree with the general opinions of the crowd here, it's unfortunate that the bottle was not open but it was almost certainly an honest mistake. That incident did not deserve chastising, but neither does making a slightly rude post on this site. I think enough people have pointed out the flaws of yelling at volunteers, no need to make an example of the OP by yelling at him as well.

Hopefully you had a good race by the end of the day if that was the only problem you had. I was at the same race, and didn't stop at the aid station but I made my own mistake: I decided to skip socks even though I was wearing brand new orthotics and I knew within half a mile of the run that it was a mistake. Ended up with 3 inch long blisters on each arch that were painful for days after the event. It was also the first time I had run more than half a mile in almost a month due to an achilles injury, so that run was generally a suffer fest. Maybe you enjoyed it more than me? ;-)

Kylie - Ya know we all see you with your areo helmet on at the computer... ;)

You type faster with it...it's obvious.

In the races I've volunteered at I had other jobs not including water bottle delivery. Out of curiosity - is there a reason one would only partially fill the bottles?

I only ask because at the Philly Tri a few weeks ago (same one as OP), I actually got a bottle filled only about 1/3rd of the way (water). It wasn't a big deal at all for me as that's all I really needed (somehow I miscalulated my sips and ended up short). Just curious though.

Maybe to insure they didn't run out. The year I competed in the first Nation's Triathlon (duathlon, that year), they were handing out huge 20oz bottles of water at the run aid station. It looked like most folks took 3 or 4 sips and then tossed them out. But, it meant that by the time us BOP'ers got there, they had a million empty cups but no water since they'd handed out bottles rather than cups. So, maybe at Philly they were filling them all from massive jugs of water and were making sure they had sufficient water to give everyone at least some. possibly?