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Study Non-Date [Starbucks Challenge]

“So, uh, we should find some place to study, right?”

“Yeah, should you, you know, call her and…”

“No, no, it’s not like I have to, like report in or any…”

“Right, right, I mean I didn’t mean to say that this was, like, you know…”

“It’s fine. It’s fine. We’re just studying.”

“Yeah, anatomy is kicking my pyriformis and levator ani.”

“Don’t even start. Where should we go?”

“Jen and Carl swear by the Starbucks in Benicia.”

“Ugh, Starbucks?”

“Oh, here we go again!”

“What?”

“Look, it’s not like they’re forcing people to go there or pay that much. It’s free market economy, you know, and they can’t be blamed for their own popularity.”

“Oh, it’s not…”

“And the whole global issue is so beside the point. They have the same rights as any business to expand where their product sells, you know.”

“Yeah, yeah, it’s just that…”

“And caffeine is addictive, I’ll grant you, but every coffee join has it.”

“Look, it’s not that stuff.”

“Then why the ugh about Starbucks?”

“I just don’t like coffee.”

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