OK, I've had enough of Starbucks everywhere and everywhere, and everywhere....they're even in the pantry @ homes everywhere. What is it with coffee drinkers and their willingness to pay $4 or $5 for a cup of brown water. I understand addiction and I have to admit that I am a soda pop addict myself but for heaven's sake even I won't buy a soda that costs more than a 93 cent 44 oz refill @ the Quick Trip. Its a REFILL too. I am even thinking that is too much sometimes. I have been using the same cup for a couple of years now. I am not adding to the waste that might otherwise be generated if I got a new soda container each time I was Jones-ing for a jolt of caffeinated carbonated water....OK, in a restaurant with food of any kind a soda might be as much as $2.00, and I am told you can pay as much as $2 for a cup of coffee @ a Denny's or something. Even there however, you get endless refills both on Sodas and the cup of Joe. OK...but people what gives with these $4 coffee drinks, its ridiculous. I have to admit also that I am the furthest thing from an aficionado of coffee but come on...use your Mr. Coffee or your French 
Press to get a cup of the brown stuff and if you have to put a little milk in it, do it like this...I can make frothy milk by passing it back and forth thru my teeth 1st then spit it into my cup of coffee. Now that's a Latte'!!! This advice could save your cash for something better like a charity of your choice, a house payment, a credit card payment (you've been charging that cup of Starbucks haven't you?) and save your cash....and that goes for you bottled water drinker's too. I work for an engineering firm, although I'm not an engineer and did you know the water you get from your tap is probably cleaner and healthier than that purchased bottle of H2O! I toured a Wastewater Treatment Plant and was amazed @ the quality of the water that came out treated and back into the river for further drinking water treatment downstream. I could have even drank the treated Wastewater poured back in the river and it would have been better for me than bottled "Spring" water. Read the labels people! If the bottle has P.W.S. (Public Water Source) printed anywhere on
the bottle you are paying big money for TAP water. If its Aqua Fina, thank you, you dumb dumbs are making my Pepsico Stock go thru the roof! Oh, your bottled water may be triple filtered and reverse osmosis-ized but if you look carefully and closely into the bottle there is still something floating around in there and the microscopic stuff you don't see passed right thru that filtering process and is now in your body. Next time avoid the pretty labels and ask for an empty cup. Find a tap somewhere and draw yourself a free cup of the good stuff from the nearest drinking fountain, hose, or spigot. Not to mention the empty plastic bottle that goes in the trash afterwards....just like the coffee cups...its so unnecessary...
If you are still Jones-ing for a cup of that Joe, PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE...patronize your local coffee houses and stay away from the Chain stores. If you have to have it, the local store will prosper from your dollars much more than any huge conglomerate chain of stores that are not about the person and more about the logo...
