Mad Visionary

As I sat in Starbucks yesterday writing a paper for work I saw something that disturbed me. I am not sure of the particular reasoning for the event, but I found it odd.

As I entered Starbucks at 8:00 am there was an overabundance of preppy private school kids in their khakis and oxford shirts with their penny loafers on hogging almost every table in the place. There were kids 4, 5 and 6 to a table taking up every table and another 10 of them in the line. Most of them filtered out at about 9:15 or so. I figured that Starbucks must have been the hangout spot before school. In that part of the city there are not exactly a ton of places to kill time before entering the halls of learning. The kids were all drinking lattes and mochas and eating overpriced and non nutritious pastries and must have spend at least $10 a piece.

So the odd part was that about an hour later, maybe more, most of the same kids filtered back into Starbucks and proceeded to buy more coffee products and juices and miscellaneous. I am assuming that they were taking exams or something that required breaks, in order to enable them to leave campus and walk to Starbucks to hang out for more than a half hour at a time.

Do the parents give the kids Starbucks money every day? Is there now such a thing as a coffee allowance for kids. I can see it now:

Come on mom. You know how I get when I don’t get my latte in the morning. You have to give me at least 5 dollars. I can’t be the onyl kid there who can only afford a regular cup of coffee. All the other kids are getting at least grande mochas.

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