Commuting and a morning cup of coffee go together like Britney Spears and her posse of pursuing paparazzi.
But, apparently if you put the two together–the coffee and commuting, that is–while riding one of the BART commuter trains in the San Francisco bay area, it could be very costly to you.
Even more costly than your daily venti, skinny, mocha, half-caf, frappuccino, caramel, macchiato, no whip, latte down at your local Starbucks.
About $245 dollars more.
So it was somewhat surprising news when BART announced recently that Peets Coffee would be setting up shop at a number of their train stations.
According to one of the BART Board of Directors, Lynette Sweet,
“It’s a little scary to think that cup of coffee could cost you $250,” she said.
“It’s the wrong message to give our riders: Don’t drink coffee on the train, but by the way, you can buy it right here.”
I guess this is what is known as the proverbial mixed message.
But you can always trust our pseudo-governmental bureaucrats to suggest a solution to a problem that they, themselves, created.
Sweet did have a suggestion that would allow you to actually drink the coffee you bought at the BART station, while riding a BART train; a cup of coffee that, ironically, generates revenue back to BART from the coffee shop at their station.
The Sweet suggestion was, “adult sippy cups.”
You know, those plastic, ostensibly no-spill cups with cutesy cartoon characters embossed on the side.
It’s great when they can solve adult-sized problems with kid-inspired answers.
I’ll leave it to you to wrestle the sippy cup away from your kid.
Frankly I liked the corporate terrorism. Should bring Starbucks to their knees.
Yeah, except if I get arrested for gorilla photography I may be the one on my knees…at the foot of Bubba.