Pricy cold brews that would excite any hipster, ready-to-serve milky, coffee-colored syrups sold in paper cartons, tepid at-home versions poured straight from a pot and subdued with massive amounts of ice - the hallowed iced coffee certainly gets its fair share of variety.
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I scratch a favorite pen, now showing marks of Sabine's teeth, across a check and marvel at the date scrawled along the top. How does time run past us so?
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I love when Mr. Pedantic suggests that we pull through that magical drive-thru to pay an obscene amount of money for a white and green cup with a scribbled interpretation of my name that only holds what I actually ordered a solid fifty percent of the time.
We complain to each other about the atrocious service and celebrate when the drink actually tastes as it should - a thing which some misinformed members of society might believe to be compulsory - but time and time again I long for that truly American experience. I have no doubt that $4.75 of my $5.00 goes to pay for just that, the experience, and gosh I do love it.
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