Thumbing my nose at Starbucks... A Starbucks has just opened on the corner near my apt. and near my coffee shop. Near not only my independent coffee shop but another one. So it's really overkill. It's not like the need for coffee is not being met on this corner. I didn't hear anything about it and then it opened. Bwahh. I'm not going to go on the moral high ground (no pun intended, but achieved none the less) and say I've never gone to one and certainly there are situations where I will go to one. I.e., I _really_ need coffee and can't find an independent option or there is no independent option or no Wegman's or no other palatable coffee. But I'm not going to this one as there's no need.
I have a perfectly good coffee shop that could be open later and sometimes their music sux. But on the whole, I like it. It's not like the Starbucks will be open any later.
It doesn't look like my coffee shop is losing any business here. (Which is good.). I'm almost hoping that some of the crowd (though not all) at my coffee shop will go there. Just a few of them. Because I want the chessboard table. There is a Frasier ep that personifies the quest for a coffee shop as he leaves Nervosa to find a new one only to have several bad coffee experiences, one has him being served coffee in a bean bag chair. He ends back at Nervosa by the end of the week.
And on another coffee related note, my ruby coffee mug died recently. Not a huge mourning process, but it was a good coffee mug. Good heft and good size and not too much of the spillage problem.
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Ok Sweetie, I get you on the whole independent coffee shop thing, but think of all the good Starbucks does in the world. Those wicked snowy Buffalo days of grad school were made tolerable by our campus Starbucks-- In places where the independent options are abysmal, Starbucks is welcome. Even in Philly it is often a cleaner, safer, more reliable option than we often find in "independent" venues. Although in Philly I do prefer Metropolitan Bakery accept on those rare occassions when I am assaulted by a homeless person (I'm not sure she was actually aiming for me).
Anyway, interesting coffee rumination this, but I balk at your use of the word "Sux." I mean, if reduced to vulgarities let's spell them out I say! Otherwise were will it end? fux? Dux? Fux who love Dux? You see the trouble no doubt.
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