It turns out that Houston, Texas is not the only place where there is a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks. If that reference eludes you, obtain a copy of Lewis Black's "The End of the Universe" comedy CD.
If the conjunction of Starbucks' is the harbinger of the end of the universe as we know it, the world is ending at Monroe and Talmadge in Toledo, Ohio. I have just discovered that is the epicenter of not two, but three Starbucks across from Starbucks. I've know about the one inside the Barnes and Noble for about as long as I've lived here. For a while, that was the only place in the greater Toledo metro area where one could get a decent mocha. Then they opened a full storefront--complete with whole bean coffee, hallelujah!--which, while not technically across the street from the B&N location, was just around the corner, and both bordered the same mall. Even so, it was good. And there was morning and evening, the fourth day. Today, I stumbled the apex of the Bermuda Starbucks Triangle: a kiosk inside the Marshall Field's at the mall flanked by the other two Starbucks. I think I just heard the fourth horseman of the apocalypse calling.
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