Prickly City by Scott Stantis for July 29, 2019

The one across the street is better.

George Carlin’s old joke – “I’ve seen the edge of the Universe! They just opened another Starbucks across the street from the other! They must have come to the end of the Universe! Right here at my corner!”

(Or something like that)

In 2007, I was at a meeting in Vancouver, B.C. and walking around on Robson (a main shopping street). I came to an intersection with another street and coffee shops on all four corners, three of them Starbucks…

Since I don’t drink coffee and never have, I can safely say it was not a caffeine induced dream… I imagine that competition has eliminated that particular overabundance.

Does Starbucks sell coffee? I thought just sold lattefrap something or other.

A test..go into a starbucks and try to order a “medium cofee”.

They’re in Iowa. Dedham, Iowa. No school, no motel, one bar, only five Starbucks.

Crosby, Stills and Nash.

The copyright notice between panels 1 & 2 says “2012”. Plus, the artwork is a little “off”. Vacation, Scott?

Yes, the strip is from July, 2012 and they were not in Iowa, as hinted by the cacti in the second panel.

I was thinking the same: Different artwork, especially for Winslow.

But I really thought – and hoped – that this was going to be a swipe at Howard Schultz!

Running well to the right of the Democratic nominees yet considered by too many (Oakstone, above) as too liberal.

Can’t please everyone.

Which is why, I suppose, the current occupant doesn’t try to please anyone!

Hope you have large available line of credit on your card, or a lot of cash for your debit card. Oh, if ether are pro police you may be asked to leave the premises.

I do like the window sign – Last Starbucks for 0.03 mi. – that’s like the bumper sticker I want – like one of the oval ones with the mileage number in it… I want 0.01 – 52.8 feet. 8^) The one in the window is 150 ft- about the width of 2 city home lots…..

No more caffeine for me today. I’m having a nuclear stress test tomorrow at 7:45am.

From “Whose Line Is It Anyway”—The very first words spoken on Mars.— “A Starbucks?”

Too much sugar too much cost.

Worst coffee ever. Cheapest beans, picked green, sitting on the docks, for weeks, sprayed with pesticides then burned…pardon me…French Roasted…to hide the poor quality.

And you pay $3 for a small cup. Oh, excuse me. A “tall” cup. Do yourself a favor. Buy your coffee pretty much anywhere else. Local diner, Collectivo, heck, even 7/11 coffee is better.