A Deck of Cards

If you know me, you know that coffee is a very real thing in my life.  And you know that I live in the beautiful PNW where there is a coffee stand on every corner.

All of the coffee stands that aren't Starbucks, have punch cards.  After 10 or 12 punches, you get a free drink.  All the coffee stands offer one when you go so it's not uncommon to have multiple cards in your car. It's like a road map of where you've traveled, like those United States stickers on motorhomes.

Like yesterday, when I discovered I have three cards for the stand near our house.  Kevin has been using my truck on the weekends and couldn't find mine so now I have multiple. And if I look in both of his trucks, there will be multiples in those vehicles as well.

To be fair, Kevin has more cards than I do because he works in yet a different county and travels more than I do.  One of the stands has a credit card style card.  I like it the best because it's durable and reusable.  I actually keep it with my ID and stuff because there are stands in two counties.

I have a card from a really nice stand down south that one of Kevin's guys owns. They write your name on it, for some reason. Maybe because I'm the former boss's wife, I am not sure.  I only go there once in a great while though.  I'm not sure where I was going with this.

Oh, I know.  If you live here, it's not uncommon that you know people who own coffee stands.  We have two friends plus Kevin's guy who own stands.  Coffee also is like wine in this instance.  Some stands make their coffees weak or too strong.  Some stands also have food. Some have terrible customer service.  Some stands are "bikini" stands. (also known as strippers who make coffee.)  There's some real diversity is the point.

I still have two cards from the city where I used to work.  I can't make myself toss them, for some reason. The odds of me ever using them are slim, especially since one is for a cafe and not drive-through.  We have a punch card for Port Orchard, which is almost four hours away and we took it because...we don't know. Habit, probably.

Even I was surprised to see just how many of these cards I have and this isn't counting my starbucks app.  I guess it's like player's cards at the casinos. OR it's kind of like bingo, with a guaranteed prize at the end.

It just occurred to me that this is probably a PNW specific thing.