... so be gentle. Never ventured into this area of Alla, but figured my rant was more appropriate here than on the gaming boards. With that said, I give you, 8 Dollar Coffee.
So my girlfriend is a nurse. She works in a neonatal intensive care unit here in Austin. I think it is an awesome job, and whenever I pop in to say hello, I make her show me the babies she takes care of. Cutest little guys you will ever see, but I digress.
She is addicted to Starbucks. I mean REALLY addicted. It's like crack for her, but since she works very hard and very long shifts, I let it slide. That is, until recently.
She has taken up the annoying habit of asking me to bring her a Starbucks (her words, not mine, I just ask for coffee) when she is working. Now this in and of itself may seem rather harmless. Allow me to demonstrate the true evil nature of this event.
Her work is 12 miles from where we live together. The closest Starbucks is 2 miles past that in downtown Austin. So round trip, I drive a total of 16 miles. At $2.60 a gallon, that adds up.
Now luckily the car we drive gets 16 mpg city, so my math was made easier.
So to start we have $2.60 for just the drive.
Now we add in the $4.17 it costs for me to buy her a non-fat iced white mocha. That I have to buy from the pimply face pseudo-hippy guy and the ratty haired girl behind the counter who are sitting there thinking "What a ***** this guy must be, drinking non-fat iced white mochas" Oh and can't forget the dollar it costs to park in the hospital garage.
This all giving me a grand total of $7.77 (ooh guess 7 isn't so lucky after all) for one cup of coffee. Round up for you math fanatics and we get 8 bucks.
Do this 3 times a week, and we are looking at 12 runs a month, draining 96 dollars a month on Starbucks alone. Jesus Christ, that's a good days work.
Of course, none of this is factoring in the traffic I have to deal with driving through downtown Austin and dodging college kids going to class. Or the looks I get when I walk into Starbucks with my daughter on my hip and my son in tow. Putting an unforgivable smudge on their beautiful little shop with my semblance of (the horror!) a normal family.
New addition to my list of **** to blow the **** up, every Starbucks I happen to come across. Seeing as how there is somewhere around 8,467 of them in Austin alone, this may take me awhile. In the meantime, I gotta get her hooked on Folgers and a coffee maker.
I'm off to see if Episode 3 is any good now.