I often stop at McDonald’s for coffee before my drive to school. It’s probably more expensive than making my own coffee at home, but it’s more convenient. Plus, I get to know the workers there, and that’s fun. They remember me pretty easily, because my order is always the same: a large black coffee with a little ice in it to cool it down.
For a while, there was a special: coffee was one dollar. With tax, it came out to be $1.06. I liked that price, because I was slowly getting rid of all the pennies in my truck’s change cup.
Shortly after school started, the price went back to regular. With tax, the total was $1.58. I usually just paid with two ones, but every once in a while, I’d use exact change.
Yesterday the price was suddenly $1.69. The total had gone up by eleven cents! I checked the receipt to be sure I wasn’t accidentally overcharged. I wasn’t. The price of my local McDonald’s coffee has gone up by seven percent.
I never know what to do with these receipts. I wish they just wouldn’t give them to me.
Hmmmmm…. what will be your breaking point? Two dollars for coffee? Three dollars? This seems like an interesting sociology experiment…….
They getcha, don’t they? Just when I get comfortable with the dollar coffee, it goes back to “regular” – then the coffee bean must get more expensive to harvest or something and BAM – it’s time to see what specials Dunkin and/or Einstein Brothers are running. (I can always get $1.10 refills at Einsteins, BTW, if I use the carafe I purchased there a while back.) Life is hard enough, people – standardize the coffee price already! –end of mutual rant
Well, my McDs coffee is $1.93. It’s sugar free vanilla iced coffee, add 1 Splenda please. I’m worth it.?