So here's my idea: and this will only make sense to those of us who have come to develop a NEED for coffee on a regular basis... I'm going to create a coffee delivery service. For those days when you can't get it together enough to get out of the house but YOU REALLY NEED A COFFEE. Not like a cup of whatever-you-can-brew-up-yourself coffee, but the kind that someone makes for you. Always seems to taste better to me anyways.
This won't work in places where around every corner there's a Starbucks (or something like it), and it won't work somewhere where there are a TON of drive-thru coffee shops. Nope. It will only work in places that are like the place that I live. I COULD drive a few extra minutes to get to a Starbucks with a drive thru, but #1, it's out of my way, #2, I'm not ALWAYS wanting Starbucks (hello? I enjoy Caribou more anyways, and while I do know that drive-thru Caribou's exist, there aren't any reasonably close to here) and #3, sometimes even getting all the yahoos (or even one yahoo) in the car is more work than I can handle. Bring on my coffee delivery service: "Joe Mama". Get it? NO STEALING NOW. You read it here first.
I would totally buy into this. I don't have to get dressed? I don't have to get the kids dressed? All I do is go online (easier than having to call someone) and coffee shows up at my door? Totally worth it sometimes. Now, I'll give you the fact that it's a LUXURY. But sometimes life really requires a bit of luxury. So... who wants to invest?
Way back when I lived in the city with a roommate who wasn't Dean (so a LONG time ago), there was a company that did something like this. It was called Cosmo, I believe. They delivered movies and ice cream and dinner and such. By bike messenger (don't think you could deliver coffee that way though). They also delivered beer. It was pricey (of course). Don't know why they went out of business, but you'll probably want to figure out what was wrong with their business model before you proceed! ;)
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