What else did you expect from a "yuppie, intellectual" atmosphere and overpriced coffee? I knew we were in trouble when people started buying small bottled water.
At one refill-your-own bottled water machine in town, I traced where the water line was hooked up, which was to the stores regular water supply. "But it's the filter system" he explained, I just laughed and left. I have filter systems at home. I guess it's the pretty pictures of the babbling brook on a hot day that sells that stuff.
"What else did you expect from a yuppie, intellectual atmosphere and overpriced coffee?"
I don't know what Starbucks you're frequenting, but I've been to a number of Barnes&Nobles across the midwest where I'll go in for a Starbucks coffee and maybe a magazine or two and the people I've seen in the book stores look pretty nondescript. What does an "intellectual" look like anyway?
I was in a Starbuck's kiosk at a toll-plaza; the whole plaza was insanely crowded with July travelers, families, old people, young people, the chaos and energy were fantastic...some were in line getting a coffee, others were getting buckets of greasy chicken. I couldn't discern any subset of people at the Starbucks line; they all seemed pretty normal to me....regular people traveling across America looking for their coffee buzz.