Commence Rant Sequence

Short story. I'm not feeling especially hungry, figure I'll get a smoothie for lunch. Grab $4.00 from my wallet, run down to Planet Smoothie, and like a brokeass college student, I stand there calculating tax and figuring out that a small (small!) smoothie would cost me $4.25. I've bought many smoothies without a second thought, and suddenly I'm very upset that my $4.00 will not buy me a small smoothie. It's what, one banana, three frozen strawberries, and some ice? How is that $4.25? An entire pizza from Domino's would cost me five bucks - sure it's not particularly good pizza, but it's still a whole entire pizza! I'm not cheap - I love my mascara, for example, and it's $17; I get my groceries from Whole Foods, where yogurt costs three times as much as it would at Publix. Smoothies there are expensive...but made with organic fruit. Call me irrational, but a $4.25 non-organic small smoothie...dammit, THAT is where I draw the line!

You know the goofy thing? If I'd had five dollars in my pocket, I would have bought myself the damn thing and would be sipping happily away, and you never would have heard this whole rant. Isn't it funny how circumstances dictate consumer behaviour?