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If I were handed a TrickyDick $300 FunBill, I would go out and try to drink 100 cups of coffee. I would fail. I would fail because, in this life, $3 coffee means the cheapest, grimiest coffee, doesn’t it? It means you spent three bucks at a gas station. It means you wasted three bucks on coffee that you won’t get around to choking down. If you have three hundred dollars and want to drink one hundred cups of coffee, your option is to make it yourself.
But not really. The fact is, there exists in Austin, a cup of coffee that runs you under a buck. I mean to find as many as I can. I mean to obtain them. I mean to try them.

Part 1: Cheating On a Halo, Also, on a Challenge

The Wells Branch Community Library

For my first trick, I shall need a volunteer from the Library. I shall need him (or her!) to go to the Wells Branch Community Library just off Wells Port Drive and obtain the first of my Cheap Coffee Cuest objects.

Library Coffee might not count. It costs exactly a dollar, though, which is what makes it my choice for first cup. They don’t actually make it there, per se. It comes from a machine. You put a little pouch bag into the device and it presses water through it, and piddles into the cup.

The library’s nice, though. I vote  that it’s the nicest library on or very near Wells Port Drive.

Take that, Pflugerville Library!

Next time: Coffee that comes from a food purveyor and costs less than a dollar. Excitement!