Did I care? Yaz, because when a coffee shop closes for a couple hours and it makes the evening news, we is all up shit's creek.

"Paddle faster. I hear banjo music."

Only time I get anything from Starbucks is at the airport, if it's a morning flight, but I don't think they got a thing over the Chock Full of Nuts brand coffee that I brew every morning with a goodly splash of half & half in it.

And why is coffee drinking something to look down upon I wonder?

Tea's alright, but to sweep all the cobwebs outta my pore brain case at 5:30 I need something with more octane than earl grey can give me.
And it smells better. Just the scent of fresh coffee wafting past your nostrils will get you on the path to a great day with many wonderful adventures waiting beyond every corner for you. And with this fantasy zipping through my caffeine-addled mind I fall out into the real world well girded against lane changers, old folks in Mercurys who leave their turn signal on for miles, and ninja motorcycles that I have near miss encounters with every morning on my way to work.

Yaz, yaz, coffee is King of Breakfast Beverages!!
Accept no substitute.
But no, I couldn't give a shit if Starbucks closed up forever, but know a few friends who'd lose their minds if it did.

Tweed