The Community Board

  • October 6, 20085:35 am PDT
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The local Exxon down the street offers, what I think, is a very forward thinking discount on their coffee. I find it unusual to think that such a green concept would come from a gas station convenience store - and there are no doubt fiscal reasons, as well as environmental ones behind the discount. Nonetheless, the store is offering discounted coffee refills when you bring your own cup. Not an uncommon concept for a coffee shop perhaps, but a gas station? And I have to say they're dwarfing Starbucks' 10 cent discount by a long shot, offering a refill of any size for $0.63.

The part I like best about it all, is that I can use any kind of cup-like device, including cup-like devices from rival gas stations. I'm currently re-using a rather large, styrofoam cup (larger than any coffee cup exxon itself carries) - original lid still intact - That I obtained at a BP station. Once it has worn its wear, I'm going to bring in my fifty-four ounce, ceramic soup mug as a part - intentional gaffe, part -exploitational" endeavor.
While the frequent reuse of a styrofoam cup that spends alot of time sitting on my tornado topped computer desk, in my moldy basement bedroom, may not be the smartest idea healthwise - It's incredibly fitting elsewise, as my tolerance for terrible coffee and my acute sensibilities for making any coffee taste how I like it, have both gone up considerably in the past two months.
And all as I feel my income so slowly, going down, down, down...