Maybe they just felt ashamed that the gift giver didn’t support the locally owned coffee shop.
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Ah, but are you accounting for the time spent charring the beans with a butane torch before you grind them?
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And skip the cultivation of my own beans? What kind of coffee amateur do you take me for? /s
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Not necessarily! Who wants to go through the rigamarole of filling out a form, choosing a subscription plan, which requires comparing which plan is the best one for you, which means maybe taking a sober look at the list of news outlets who are currently sending you a bill every month, which means sitting back and reading an article from each one, just to refresh your memory of why you subscribed in the first place…
Give me a QR code that’s good for 1 article, and I can hold it up to my laptop’s camera to get past the paywall, without all of that? Priceless!
It doesn’t save time at all, but it sure sounds better to most people.
I use to give bookstore gift certificates (what they were called back before they became little plastic credit card sized things) with “I loved book X, thought it would be perfect for you, and was going to get it for you, and then realized it was so perfect maybe you already had bought it for yourself, or someone else was also going to get it for your birthday, so I got you this gift certificate so you can get another book if you want”, normally that went over well because I had personally thought of a specific gift, but not tied them down to it. It was better for me because half the time I hadn’t actually thought of a good book for them, just some book I had liked, and they never got themselves that one because it really wasn’t for them (better for me because I didn’t need to put the actual effort in, just look like it because they put the effort in). Win win!
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It doesn’t what?
It doesn’t save time. (NOTE: I edited the original to make sense, so anything that thinks Stephen is being dimwitted, nope, I’m the idiot in this conversation)
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Ah. I reserve the right to still be dimwitted, FWIW.
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Any gift that requires further purchase of things is what is known as a dick move.
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200 college students represent…absolutely nothing as far as extrapolating to American, or even more so human, thought, ethics, or gratitude.
I find that subscriptions allow you to read articles that aren’t individually worth paying for, but help to fill in the picture. I blow through the “non subcribers are limited to x articles per month” limits in a single morning. On the other hand, I have a huge New Yorker backlog.
My mother gave my first child a bathroom scale for her 1st birthday. Not a baby scale, but rather the kind an adult stands on to figure out how much they still weigh from having given birth a year prior. Oh so subtle.
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fsogol it was a joke. I don’t shop at starbucks :\
Wow… My mother, who had been a glamorous actress/model back in the 50s/60s, whenever I brought a girlfriend over (rarely) would “bond” (she thought) with them by giving them hair and nail advice. Oy. And the nail advice was always to mix Knox gelatin in orange juice and drink that once a day. Stronger nails, apparently. The first girl I brought home was a sculptor who, admittedly, had messed up nails, but that was because SHE USED HER HANDS! So sorry I remembered that…
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If you know I’m trying to save money give me a $5 bill. Gift card to an overpriced mediocre barista just feels condescending.
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sometimes the best charity is cash
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