Cult/Clique/addiction/the in thing like the Apple/IPhone/IPad/IMac cult/clique/addiction and/or addiction to Starbuck products.
We have a young relative couple with the above. He has the Starbuck problem and she has the Apple/IPhone/IPad/IMac cult/clique/ problem. Both are in their forties, with good degrees, good workers and good parents. They have two great kids, a great credit rating and have no debt besides their mortgage.
I posted about her Apple/IPhone/IPad/IMac cult/clique/addiction problem recently. She has the latest Iphone, IPad and IMac, and she can’t leave them alone. I offered her a hundred $’s if she would not use her Apple/IPhone/IPad/IMac for 24 hours. She got red faced and refused the easy $100. Her husband offered a $100 if she didn’t use her Apple/IPhone/IPad/IMac for the next 6 hours. She refused that and refused a 4 hour offer.
The husband is addicted to Starbucks. He stops each morning before work at a Starbuck Drive thru. He buys the SB large coffee to go. Then, he has a bottle of Frapicino at 10:30, 12:30 and 3:30. He avoids going into a Starbucks as he doesn’t care for the crowd inside. So he uses the Drive Thru lane to feed his addiction and buys the SB Frapicino by the case at grocery stores.
This past week he was still kidding her about her Apple problem. I offered him $200 if during the work week, he didn’t feed his Starbucks addiction. He shook his head no. His wife made the same offer if he didn’t feed the Starbuck addiction for a single work day. He refused.
The truly afflicted are those with the Apple/IPhone/IPad/IMac cult/clique/addiction problem er products coupled with a Starbucks problem. They are like zombies/the living dead going to their local Starbucks to buy SB’s products to drink while using SB’s WiFi with their Apple/IPhone/IPad/IMac cult/clique/addiction problem er products.
There are many worse things to be addicted to in our culture, and if you bought either or both of those stocks years ago you would have a very handsome profit right now.