A story for you... I was in the elevator last week with 3 other people. I was holding my daily iced coffee and a man and a woman each had a coffee in their hand. They were talking about their need for morning caffeine when then other man chimed in with, "Never had a drop in my life." You would have thought he just admitted to murder. We gasped. He said he had never had a cup of coffee in his whole life, to which I replied, "Don't start now!"Is it weird that we were stunned at his lack of caffeine cravings? It seems almost inhuman to me! I stop every morning on my way to work and get a coffee from Starbucks. In the colder months I normally get a tall coffee in a grande cup (to avoid the inevitable garbage pour out) and get the same, iced version in the warmer months. I feel like I need it. It's an addiction. It's a routine. I guess there are much worse things to be addicted to than coffee, but I still feel the cravings like it was anything else. I feel like most people in the working world are the same way. We need it!
I was just crunching the numbers and now I am sick to my stomach. A tall coffee (non-iced) is $1.84 here in New York. I don't know why (I'm sure my barista friends will enlighten me,) but an iced version of the same drink is $2.22. It's the age old question: why is the ice more expensive? Aren't I, in reality, getting less coffee because the ice takes up so much of the cup? Regardless... if I am drinking a coffee every morning, five days a week, hot coffee for 6 months a year and iced for the other 6, I am spending $527.80 a year! ON COFFEE. Sick.Please share your caffeine confessions with me by leaving a comment, but in the meantime, check out Wikipedia's Starbucks entry. It's really interesting. And check this out- a map of all the countries in the world where Starbucks exists. Maybe I'll get a free cup of joe out it.
