silly question about Starbucks

a certain member of the forum keeps getting s-bucks cards mailed to him out of the blue.
this same member is often heard lamenting about his diet of gruel due to a lack of snow deep enough for him to be willing to get his toys dirty. (as opposed to the evil competition who will charge people to plow up a 2" fall)
S-bucks sells "food" other than gruel.
so what's he doing with the cards?
burying them in the backyard waiting for 2/27 when all the baristas have been freshly trained on the proper way to pour coffee?

I think he's secretly planning to open a Dougbucks. He'll take over some of the abandoned Starbucks.

that makes sense!
then he can shovel all the snow into the competition's driveway and everyone will have to come drink his coffee!

I was afraid that he maybe had a nasty gruel addiction or fetish and someone might need to stage an intervention - you know, maybe reintroduce him to the joys of food you have to chew...

Erik said:

a certain member of the forum keeps getting s-bucks cards mailed to him out of the blue. this same member is often heard lamenting about his diet of gruel due to a lack of snow deep enough for him to be willing to get his toys dirty. (as opposed to the evil competition who will charge people to plow up a 2" fall) S-bucks sells "food" other than gruel. so what's he doing with the cards? burying them in the backyard waiting for 2/27 when all the baristas have been freshly trained on the proper way to pour coffee?

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Doc said:

I think he's secretly planning to open a Dougbucks. He'll take over some of the abandoned Starbucks.

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Erik said:

that makes sense! then he can shovel all the snow into the competition's driveway and everyone will have to come drink his coffee! I was afraid that he maybe had a nasty gruel addiction or fetish and someone might need to stage an intervention - you know, maybe reintroduce him to the joys of food you have to chew...

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Ouch!!! Yet another series of vicious unprovoked attacks on the wisdom, judgement and sanity of NTT's one and only OLD MEMBER. Fact is that I did grab a chicken salad sandwich with my Starbucks on two separate occasions when I couldn't take the gruel even one more minute. The "food" selection at my local Starbucks is extremely limited and those chicken salad sandwiches are the only thing edible in terms of substantive, non-snack food. But I felt very guilty about using my limited coffee funds to buy food. I don't think that was ever the intent of the wonderful folks who sent those gift cards to me and besides... each sandwich represents about 2 glorious Starbucks coffees that I will never experience!!!

That horrible thought alone was enough to send me back to my hideous gruel.

Dougster

heh.
I KNEW he had to surface sometime if we talked about Starbucks!

and I'd feel guilty about eating their chicken salad as well -- but that's mostly because its, well, chicken salad and me and mayo don't get along well...

Chicken salad sandwiches and gruel=no teeth