I watched as he reached into his jeans pocket and pulled out his life's savings, 4 dollars, some change and a lintball. The woman behind the counter handed him a cup. Stepping back into mall traffic, he took a sip. Then, he took another. Pronouncing it too stong, he carelessly tossed it in a trash can. My own brother just threw 4 dollars worth of half caf, half coff and all cup in the trash! My eyes did the huge cartoon jumping out of my head ah-ooooga thing.
I love coffee, but I'm not an "okay, let me withdraw some money, so I can buy a cup" type person. If I'm in the mall, I can think of other, better uses for my 4 dollars and change. I could buy 8 giant peach-shaped gumballs from the machines. I could put a down payment on a t-shirt at Hot Topic that looks like a straight jacket (awesome for teacher workdays). I could buy 4 bottles of water and with some free ketchup and pepper packets from the Food Court Arby's make my special Hobo Virgin Bloody Marys for Sunday brunch. I could buy a Dover Thrift Edition of 'The Vicar at Wakefield' from Border's and still have money left over to buy a kitten bookmark with a tassle. (Nothing says, "see my college education" like a Dover Thrift Edition classic.) I might even get a wacky, 'stick it to the man', clearance bumper sticker at one of those high end teen stores that says, "I Heart Guns 'N Roses".
Now, spending a wad of money at a cute little coffee pagoda with wire chairs and biscotti doesn't sound too tempting, does it? If we pool our money, we can have Hobo Virgin Bloody Marys for a week!
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