My coffee shop is out of coffee.  I buy my beans specially ground for drip coffee makers and so have to go to specific shops which can do that.  I've been twice since we returned 10 days ago but both times the proprietors have said they have no coffee to sell.  Their shelves are bare just like Mother Hubbard.  They say they have had no deliveries.  Their shop/cafe is a franchise of a locally produced specialty coffee based less than 10 miles away.   Now if this were a shop in the US, the owners would get in their car and pick up the coffee themselves.  Not here.  They stand behind the bar and throw their hands up in the air and say, "What can we do?".  Go get the flippin' coffee!  That's what you can do!  I've been drinking the horrible stuff that comes out of a machine at school just to get my caffeine.  Today I called a teacher friend on the way to school and invited myself to stop in for breakfast.  I was desperate.  Unfortunately there are no coffee shops between here and the school as it's all residential or countryside.  I'm going to have to venture farther away to get my supplies if I can just get the time.  xxoo me