50 cents

50 cents.

Today I spent 50 cents on Starbucks coffee. I have to say it was the happiest 50 cents I’ve spent in a long. Sure, I’ve spent 50 cents on a day old donut that made me kinda giddy, but this 50 cents bought me some, from fresh out the pot (and not secret pot from a back room area where they duck into when a homeless person comes in for hand outs) I’m talking right up front, honest to goodness—Starbucks. The barista called it out loudly, “You want a refill? That’ll be 50 cents.” I was like… dang! Wow! Really? 50 cents?
I pulled out my last 10 bucks and gladly broke it, getting 9.50 back in change. As I poured my pink stuff in carefully—wouldn’t want to ruin the flavor, making it too sweet or whatever—I pondered what I would do with my 9.50…considering I thought I’d only be getting back like 8.50. A whole extra dollar! Man! Wow! Dang!
Lunch came to mind. Yesterday I spent a buck extra on some really good rice. Normally I get just the plain white rice but the little sidewalk food vendor had this yellow rice that had like eggs in it or some cheese looking stuff…you never know with those vendors but it was good. I had onions on the top and well…I eat my onions at work. Nobody has that much business in my face to where my breath should be an issue… okay. So anyway, I got it for 3 bucks instead of 2 and thought, okay now I only have 10 bucks left. I didn’t get my afternoon coffee 1 buck refill from the little store downstairs because it was I didn’t want to break my 10 bucks. You know, with it being my last and all. Besides, in the afternoon that 1 buck coffee is well… it leaves a lot of want in the flavor department. In the mornings it’s pretty good and I do take my own cup in order to get it for a buck but that’s only when I’m running late and I don’t have my own coffee from home… which lately has been lousy anyway but I think that’s because I cut back on my Folgers and got the store brand. It’s harsh tasting and well you know Folgers is mountain grown…the richest kind. But I was broke and had only 10 bucks and well Folgers can be rather spendy so I went for the store brand, it cost way less and well… I can taste the less. Anyway, so I sometimes in the afternoon get the 1 buck refills considering they don’t taste any worse than my own coffee from home, right? But today for 50 cents I got Starbucks and man is it ever good. It was good enough to blog about…so you know that means it was doggone good and well worth my 50 cents. Between me and you, I’da paid a buck because there’s still a lot I can do with 9 dollars in change.
Even though I must admit, I’m digging that extra 50 cents.