So I've ordered my triple Venti Skinny Vanilla Latté, and they ring me up with a total of $5.14. I fork over the money, knowing that it's totally ridiculous to pay $5 for frothy milk, espresso, and syrup, but not really feeling that guilty, because my Starbucks habit has been SERIOUSLY contained this fall, and I haven't had a latté in weeks. Plus I have to stay up alllllllllll night to invent a thesis. ALSO: Christmas cups are here! Totally and unabashedly excited.
ANYWAYS (again...clearly the three shots of espresso are making! me! excited!), so I pay the money, zip my wallet closed, turn around, and see Preston's jaw on the floor as he looks up at the price list above the register. "FIVE DOLLARS? That is an EXPENSIVE cup of coffee." And I realized that, behold, America: meet Preston, the lone U.S. citizen who doesn't drink coffee and, therefore, until tonight, had no idea that we were all being robbed. You learn something new every day. Unfortunately I still have not learned how to conjure a thesis out of thin air, but believe me. I'm working on it.
Adam would KILL me if he knew the portion of my salary last year which went to Starbucks (they were 3 doors away from my office- Hooray!).
ReplyDeleteI am right there with Preston on this one. Actually come to think of it, I don't know when I have ever disagreed with Preston.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I don't drink coffee, and I think *Four*Bucks (aka Starbucks) is a sham.
My husband doesn't drink coffee either. When I told him coffee is an acquired taste, he asked me why in the world he'd want to drink something that tastes terrible just to acquire a taste for it :)
ReplyDeleteMF---That young man that posted above who shares a birthday with your husband is a misguided young man since he doesn't like any coffee, much less Starbucks. He is soooo much like his dad, but so different in the coffee world, Jeff would walk barefooted across Siberia to get his coffee. Hope by now, the thesis exists and is moving onward.
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