Something that I find bewildering is the need by many office workers in London – and I assume this isn’t just confined to London – to wander around before and after work clutching cardboard cups filled with expensive coffee from all those coffee shop chains.

Why?

OK, as anyone who knows me knows, I’m a bit of an addict when it comes to caffeine and I do appreciate being able to grab a cup and sit at one of their tables and watch the world go by when I have time to kill before visiting a Client. But why would I want to buy an expensive – and let’s face it, not really all that good – cup of coffee on my way to the office I work at, when I can (and do) make myself one in the office kitchen when I arrive?

Maybe I just don’t get the whole yuppie fashion thing?