Starbucks Strikes Again

Gawdammit!! Howard, you bastard! You are seriously making me crazy. Allow me to 'splain. Among other discoveries yesterday...

1. Just as I was about to overcome my Gingerbread Latte dependency, you go and create this...




2. Starbucks will give you a sample of new drinks, the better to addict you introduce you to its yummy goodness.

3. If you become a regular customer, they covertly begin upsizing you, which I assume is because they are generous, or maybe it's just that they want to make sure you are sufficiently dependent on them. Order a grande, get a venti. I don't know if this is standard practice or just because I'm so freaking adorable, but it happens a lot. I've been known to get a freebie pretty often too. All the better to feed my addiction.

4. Not only am I a weak, weak woman who loves espresso and steamed milk, probably more than most people, and not only is it one of my few, sometimes only, choices available, I now feel as if I have become a minion of the Evil Starbucks Empire. This may look like an advertisement for them, but I assure you it's meant as more of a Public Service Announcement. If you value your checkbook and your waistline, please, please stay away from these expensive, fattening, and totally pointless drinks!!!!! (heheh, that'll leave more for me!!)