Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Next Time Try a Bath!
Once (and only once...for now) more with the dunked dog and basted brat!
Last month there was a bit of a buzz (no pun intended) over a Washington Post article on coffee habbits. It seems the Seattle Univeristy School of Law is highly critical of its students Starbucks habits. For example, one Kristen Daniels graduated with $115,000 in student loans (is that a "ha-ha" we hear in the echoey phone line shadows?), and the school doesn't think she should be spending $3 per day on her espresso drink. The full magnitude of this alleged fiscal irresponsiblilty can be found here. "A latte a day on borrowed money - it's crazy" says Ericka Lim, director of career services. Lim v. Daniels, 2005 WaPo AR0506701266 (emphasis added). Daniels disagrees. "I would be a very crabby person without my comfort latte"
The editors were sympathetic to Daniels, realizing that the $3 is buying more than just the drink but the whole coffeehouse experience. We think back to days when we repeatedly beseached the Monz to visit our then second-favorite coffeehouse, the Blue Vervain. We fondly recall the day Monz visited and we all guzzled hot coffee (ours flavored with real hazlenuts) and munched on organic nachos. But Monz sliced through these smokey memories with a hammer of karmic justice: "Heh, you deserve it - the backbreaking decades of crushing debt, the ability to go to a giant firm but the inability to enjoy it because of the heavy debt. Hee hee hee! Hee hee! Hee hee! Hee!...Yes, print that, that's the mood I'm in!
Once (and only once...for now) more with the dunked dog and basted brat!
Last month there was a bit of a buzz (no pun intended) over a Washington Post article on coffee habbits. It seems the Seattle Univeristy School of Law is highly critical of its students Starbucks habits. For example, one Kristen Daniels graduated with $115,000 in student loans (is that a "ha-ha" we hear in the echoey phone line shadows?), and the school doesn't think she should be spending $3 per day on her espresso drink. The full magnitude of this alleged fiscal irresponsiblilty can be found here. "A latte a day on borrowed money - it's crazy" says Ericka Lim, director of career services. Lim v. Daniels, 2005 WaPo AR0506701266 (emphasis added). Daniels disagrees. "I would be a very crabby person without my comfort latte"
The editors were sympathetic to Daniels, realizing that the $3 is buying more than just the drink but the whole coffeehouse experience. We think back to days when we repeatedly beseached the Monz to visit our then second-favorite coffeehouse, the Blue Vervain. We fondly recall the day Monz visited and we all guzzled hot coffee (ours flavored with real hazlenuts) and munched on organic nachos. But Monz sliced through these smokey memories with a hammer of karmic justice: "Heh, you deserve it - the backbreaking decades of crushing debt, the ability to go to a giant firm but the inability to enjoy it because of the heavy debt. Hee hee hee! Hee hee! Hee hee! Hee!...Yes, print that, that's the mood I'm in!
Comments:
0 comments
