Here I thought I wasn’t going to have anything to write about today, but all it took was a trip down to Starbucks for me to once again conclude that people ruin everything, and feel like writing about it.
So pretty much on a daily basis, my routine is that I get a cup of coffee in the morning when I get into the office, and because I’m an addict, usually around 2 pm, I go back to get a refill, because one of the benefits to being a Gold card holder is that refills are free.
Refills are on somewhat of an honor system; I buy a cup every morning; it’s roughly $1.90 for 12 ounces, which I get a refill for free later in the day. Sure, extrapolate the numbers, and I’m spending somewhere around $500 a year on coffee probably, but everyone’s got to have a vice.
Anyway, I’m aware that it would extremely easy to hold onto a single cup, and ride it the whole week or conceivably longer, but that’s just a shitty thing to do in my opinion. Not only does it scream extreme cheapskate, there’s something about the nature of taking a paper cup, regardless of how resilient, or eco-friendly/efficient it is, and introducing moisture into it, letting it try, rinse and repeat numerous times over, and expecting it to be as clean as it was the first go-around.
Also, I’m too much of a paragon to exercise such petty unethical practices.
Unfortunately, not enough of everyone else can say the same. I was told by the cashier on shift that this particular Starbucks was going to have to require receipts in order to get refills, regardless of card status, because apparently too many people were abusing the refill system, and doing exactly what’s mentioned above; camping a single cup, and riding it for an inordinate amount of time.
Now it’s not the end of the world for me to have to get a receipt each morning, and make sure to present it to the workers in the afternoon, but it’s simply the fact that the cheapskate dick behavior of others ruining a good thing that has me feeling a little salty. It just agitates me that I have to modify my routine and behavior, on account of others ruining it for everyone else.
Not lost on me is the fact that this is a penultimate example of a white person first-world problem, but like I said, it’s not like I had anything better to write about today either. People ruin everything.
