Wellingtonista boos: ads on our sacred space

Adjust­ing to the new offices on Lambton Quay has­n’t been easy, and a huge part of the prob­lem has been try­ing to get into a new cof­fee rou­tine. That is why it’s so dis­tress­ing that Fres­co*, which sells Mojo cof­fee, is now using take­away cups print­ed with Tele­com adver­tis­ing. How many min­utes will I spend think­ing about cof­fee over the next two years? A lot more than I’ll think about switch­ing to Tele­com, you punks. Even if I had­n’t had my voda­fone num­ber since it was Bell South, there’s no way I’d switch now. Leave me alone and stop hound­ing me when all I am try­ing to do is wake up!

* Yes, their take­away lattes are $4.50, but their muffins are $2.50, so break­fast is only 20 cents more expen­sive than get­ting a cheese scone and cof­fee from Kyrani.