i know just how you feel, but i don't stop myself. not being a coffee connoisseur, i'll drink just about anything except the stuff that turns grey when you put the cream in it, so sometimes gas stations and so forth tempt me. but i think i'm afraid that if i get off the bike i'll never get on again. coffee is a leisure kind of thing to me. it has a very very definite kicking-back place in my life.

what i do love to do is give myself a buffer period between getting off the bike and going in there to work. never do that in a car; in a car i just park the creature and go straight through the doors clutching my coffee mug. but biking is such a different experience from driving to work, i find that i often arrive there feeling like i've been on a different planet. so if i've got all my ducks in a row that morning, i sure love to go find a coffee place and have one between shower and work. it's actually one of my motivators. if the ride goes well, then i have time to do it, so i tend to push myself with that in mind.