Before I went to bed last night, I checked out my Google AdSense stats to see how things were going, and I was a little shocked at the number of “page impressions” that came up. The stats said 883, and I thought that had to be off base because this site has only been live since Monday the 14th. I mean, I’ve been running another site, Blog Louisville, since October 13th, and I’ve never had more than 157 visitors in a day over there…Granted, the content has a local slant to it, but still–I don’t go around expecting nearly 900 visitors after just a couple days of activity. Passing it off as a possible fluke, I headed to bed and didn’t really think too much about it.
Got up this morning and had to rub my eyes a few times, though. 
Urchin stats said I had 975 visitors on Wednesday the 16th, so Google was totally right…surprisingly up to the minute, too. Anyway, I was SHOCKED, and then I immediately began to ask “what happened??” On Tuesday, I submitted my Starbucks entry to reddit. The submission generated approximately 300 additional visits on Tuesday and, come to find out, another 200 or so on Wednesday. The article rose to at least #10 on reddit’s “hottest” page (that was the highest I saw it, but I wasn’t checking it all the time, either), so that’s the reason for most of the associated traffic. Still doesn’t explain the 975, though, so I dug a little deeper.
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Twenty seconds ago life was good. You got your addiction fix, performed your daily ritual, and felt good about what the day might bring. You even took preventive measures like placing the drinking spout and the seam of the cup in positions that were diametrically opposed to one another. But now none of that matters, because you forgot to pick up napkins. How could you be so shortsighted? Didn’t you EXPECT this to happen? I mean, after all, it’s an international epidemic.