{"id":20736,"date":"2017-01-17T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20736"},"modified":"2017-01-17T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:39:08","slug":"cause-and-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20736","title":{"rendered":"Cause and Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/264;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Costa Diet Coffee\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/costa_fat_coffee.jpg\" alt=\"Costa Diet Coffee\" width=\"524\" height=\"264\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Something made me smile today. I was at the Trent University for a driving test and while my pupil was out I went to one of the cafes on the campus to get a coffee, as is my wont.<\/p>\n<p>It was lunch time, so the place was full of students (God, was I ever like that?) While I was waiting to order my coffee I was semi-fuming that the two people in front of me both seemed unable to complete the simple task of ordering a drink and sandwiches without necessitating a complicated discussion with the counter staff, nor of paying the couple of pounds (student subsidies) cost of their meal without the need to use a credit card and take at least two tries to get the PIN right.<\/p>\n<p>The girl immediately in front of me was\u2026 erm\u2026 quite chunky, and \u2013 these were students, remember \u2013 clearly operated on the premise that it\u2019s OK to stand in line, then go and look for something else in the cool cabinet, then push back in, then go and have another look, and so on. 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