L'anarchie pour la Cité des Fèves
Dec. 10th, 2001 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibet...or whatever that would be in *real* French.
I wish there weren't a Starbucks right next door to my office. At all other locations, I try to make it a point not to patronize them. But there's a Starbucks counter not very much further away from my desk than are the soda machine, drinking fountain, and restrooms in my building. (I am, in fact, very near to several places for the obtaining or disposing of beverages.)
Now, across the street, there is a cafe with somewhat cheaper and better-tasting coffee, and they are more underdog-like in that they have only a couple dozen locations in the entire country. But -- and here's the thing -- they are across the street. I have to walk about three times as far to buy coffee there. And I am lazy.
But I lash out at Starbucks in little ways. I ask for a "large" coffee, not a "venti." On one occasion, I even said, "give me a big-ass iced coffee." Ha! Take that, you neighborhood-cafe-destroying bastards!
Plus, just now I stole a handful of their raw sugar packets that J. needs for a recipe. Fight the power!
I wish there weren't a Starbucks right next door to my office. At all other locations, I try to make it a point not to patronize them. But there's a Starbucks counter not very much further away from my desk than are the soda machine, drinking fountain, and restrooms in my building. (I am, in fact, very near to several places for the obtaining or disposing of beverages.)
Now, across the street, there is a cafe with somewhat cheaper and better-tasting coffee, and they are more underdog-like in that they have only a couple dozen locations in the entire country. But -- and here's the thing -- they are across the street. I have to walk about three times as far to buy coffee there. And I am lazy.
But I lash out at Starbucks in little ways. I ask for a "large" coffee, not a "venti." On one occasion, I even said, "give me a big-ass iced coffee." Ha! Take that, you neighborhood-cafe-destroying bastards!
Plus, just now I stole a handful of their raw sugar packets that J. needs for a recipe. Fight the power!
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Date: 2001-12-10 12:33 pm (UTC)I can't believe you would go to Starbucks instead of Cafe Royale, even if it is across the street. Even if it were across the street, in the snow, and uphill both ways.
Of course, I also can't believe that Mat calls for delivery from a place that's all of 50 yards from our house.
(This from a person who drives to the grocery store a block away.)
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Date: 2001-12-10 01:58 pm (UTC)Hey, if you're buying a lot of groceries, it's easier to use the car.
Yeah, I should go to Royale instead. I'm more likely actually to finish a large beverage from them than from Starbuck's, for one thing, because of that whole flavor deal.
Part of the problem is not only the convenience, but the Convenience Points: I often load my ID card with BU-only purchasing power that can be paid off later, so I can get lunch or a coffee when I've run out of cash or something. The Starbucks accepts BU convenience points, and so during long stretches of extreme poverty I get used to buying bad coffee on credit.