I drink a great deal of coffee and I'm exceptionally lazy. This results in me buying a great deal of coffee from Starbucks or whatever Starbucks like place is around. To be honest it could be a bleeding lepper selling iced coffee out of an old oil drum, it doesn't matter to me.
Since I've been in LA I've noticed that the Starbucks actor/model/director/toga instructor/screenwriters have been asking me if my one cup of coffee is "here or to go". At first this just seemd to be a typical quirk of the average idiot Californian mentality. Just garnering uselss information for no apparent reason. So, being an inquisitve and outgoinng sort of guy I asked one why the hell they ask.
"Does it come in a diffrent container if it's for here or something?"
"No, you have to pay taxes if you drink it here."
"What?"
"You pay taxes if you drink it here, but not if it's 'to go'."
"Let me get this straight. If I buy a cup of coffee and tell you it's to go and then decide to drink it here I don't pay taxes."
"Well, no, you wouldn't."
"But if I tell you I'm drinking it here then I have to pay taxes."
"Yes."
"Does anyone ever say they're drinking it here?"
"People from out of state sometimes."
"Ahh, thanks."
What kind of idiot lawmakers do you have in this ********* GEE I WONDER WHY YOU CAN'T GET ENOUGH INCOME TO RUN THE STATE.