{"id":34876,"date":"2012-12-10T21:42:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T01:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=34876"},"modified":"2020-07-03T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T01:42:51","slug":"the-perils-of-hesitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=34876","title":{"rendered":"The perils of hesitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this photograph are 243 empty tall cups of Starbucks coffee.\u00a0 This has accumulated in about roughly a year\u2019s worth of weekdays in which I went to work and had a coffee in the morning.\u00a0 This excludes any day in which I redeemed my frequent-buyer free drinks, in which I\u2019d get the venti-sized of something way more expensive and potent than a single tall cup of drip coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the point is, 243 cups of coffee equates to roughly $432.54, and this is over the span of a year, give or take a month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, Starbucks released a limited edition steel Starbucks card, complete with laser etched artwork.\u00a0 It cost $450 to get one, which sounds worse than it is, because it comes pre-loaded with $400, which means that you\u2019re essentially paying $50 for a steel card.\u00a0 I don\u2019t often know what I ever want, but I felt a very strong compulsion to getting one of these steel cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yeah, they\u2019re pretentious as hell, and even the VP of the company that manufactured them had this to say:<\/span><\/p>\n

When you’re waiting in line at Starbucks, the next person in line won’t have it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So typically snobby, elitist and try hard as it comes, but from a purely aesthetic point of view, it didn\u2019t change the fact that I wanted one of these steel cards.\u00a0 For the last few days, I\u2019d been deliberating in my head, if it would be worth it to front the $450 to get one of these, because I\u2019d undoubtedly use the $400 that came on in, in due time; after all, I\u2019ve already proven I can use $400 on Starbucks without any problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I decided to take the plunge, and look into the steps necessary in order to get one.\u00a0 I guess I shouldn\u2019t have been surprised, that there were coffee snobs and elitists with money to burn like me, that had already come along and snapped up all 5,000 of the steel cards.\u00a0 And all within two days of them being released no less, which meant while I was deliberating in my head trying to convince myself to get one, 5,000 other people didn\u2019t have such hesitations in their heads, and now they\u2019ll have something that I don\u2019t have.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this photograph are 243 empty tall cups of Starbucks coffee.\u00a0 This has accumulated in about roughly a year\u2019s worth of weekdays in which I went to work and had a coffee in the morning.\u00a0 This excludes any day in which I redeemed my frequent-buyer free drinks, in which I\u2019d get the venti-sized of something … Continue reading The perils of hesitation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,79,43,45,15],"class_list":["post-34876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-cashmoney","tag-coffee","tag-fail","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34878,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876\/revisions\/34878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}