Well, then how do you tell how bad your natural disasters are! Also, where do you get your hashbrowns scattered and smothered?
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Well where I am now… Is there at least a Starbucks open where I can get an espresso I suppose.
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Isn’t there like at least 3 starbucks near all of us? Where I am, there are 2 stand alones, one in a target, and one in a B&N within a mile of each other. Only 3 waffle houses (and one Dennys and one IHOP).
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Hah. Lets see Safeway, QFC, Target, Barnes & Noble, and 3 proper Starbucks (one of which is in the same mall as Barnes & Noble) that I can walk to.
And happily one independent coffee house.
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Weirdly, I think we have one of those near us too, which I just found out about and have not tried yet… Not within walking distance, since I’m in the rural burbs…
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I read the article, and at first I thought it was a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek piece, but by the end I saw this as a decidedly dark Groundhog Day-esque tale (and possibility a cry for help (only partially kidding here)).
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My parents’ first date was apparently a burger at a Husky gas station (which I suspect is a Canadian thing). It seemed to work for them, their 50th anniversary is this fall.
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Source: have eaten there more than once. It’s affordable. I will give it that much.
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During snowpocalypse up here the 3 local coffee shacks near my place were all operating on normal hours, so I knew everything would be okay.
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Worse. It seems like she wants the dates to fail (after, perhaps, a hook up or make out session in the car). It’s nice that you can be so honest about wasting people’s time these days.
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Taking the story a little bit personally, aren’t ya?
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Nothing says “I think you’re special” like “this is where I take all of my first dates, none of which I had any expectation of seeing again.”
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In a pub quiz in Edinburgh once, I learned that Fosters is the largest selling beer in the United Kingdom. This was in the late 90’s, so capnjimbo’s comment was apropos.
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Actually I preferred VB to Foster’s when I was in Australia many moons ago. Not that that says anything about my uneducated American palate.
I love how there will be a Starbucks in the parking lot of the grocery store … which will have a Starbucks inside.
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Always, always, ask a local, preferably several!
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Aww! 
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My parents have always been cagey about how they met.
It was the 70’s so I haven’t pushed it.
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If we’re doing this, we need the Keaton Patti tweet in here as well.
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