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I am a coffee-holic.
Nearly to the extent that an alcoholic is an alcoholic, I must be a coffee-holic. Could not imagine a day without it. Well, I guess that it could happen, but it would be most unpleasant for everyone else involved. I can't even face me on a morning before my first coffee, so god help anyone else who dares get in my way. Over the past year my average consumption has crept up from an average of one or two cups a day, to 4 cups being the usual and over 8 if it's a hangover day. Even more if it's a bad hangover. However, recently I have cut down on Starbucks and Caffe Nero and Costa and all those other chains of coffees, and I guess they must have two or three cups' worth of coffee in a medium/large one of their's, right?

Damn you. Overpriced urgh-ness.

It's quite sad that one of the worst things I consider about being poor is that I can't afford overpriced coffee. I mean, it is what it says on the tin, overpriced. Starbucks is my vice. I must have been keeping their stocks afloatsingle-handedly, the amount of times I used to go into that place. I'm sure that it was at least once a day, and I couldn't get to work without popping into the Starbucks on the way there. At the rate that I was spending, back in the glory days I like to call them, I'd be well on to paying that place a grand a year, if not more. Good job I stopped then?

What I loved about Starbucks, why I was willing to part with so much money on a daily basis, was the staff. Like any good salespeople, they were lovely and valued you as a regular customer, and made you feel like it was actually worth paying more than I would pay for a lunch meal deal for a cup of coffee. They even gave me a small discount for working on the same road as their shop, which made me really justify going in there on a regular basis. I think I stopped because I realised that I couldn't keep up such an expensive habit.

Red cups now did you know?
Do you care?

However, I did go in to Starbucks today. I guess it was something to do with their alluring promise of 2 for 1 hot drinks between the hours of 2 and 5, and I just couldn't resist and longer. Having had a craving at the back of my mind, niggling at me for Starbucks for the past couple of weeks or so, I can well and truly say now that that craving is satisfied. However, one little detail plagues my mind. I know that I haven't visited my local Starbucks for the past couple of months due to financial being poor-ness, but why did they have to go and change pretty much all of my members of staff there?!?! The manager had trained them well so that they were polite and friendly and very nice, so I have no complaints against them. Except it's just not the same without your favourite familiar faces.

However, all hope was not gone. I practically downed two grande cups of coffee, one a toffee nut latte and the other a praline mocha (toffee nut is better by miles, I must say,)got to work and was very productive. For two whole hours. I was still buzzing when I came out of the place. It turns out that Starbucks is a very magical place where my work gets done...

Oh God, that's the first step on the slippery slope isn't it? Soon enough I'll be carting my laptop bag into town every day, enjoying the finest bucks of Star at all expense, crippling my bank balance as well as my back, in the process.

DAMN YOU STARBUCKS D: