AIBU to drive 17 miles round trip for a coffee?

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Lighthearted! It’s Sunday morning, I have two hours to myself. I have a coffee subscription through a discount code at the moment which means it wouldn’t cost me anything. I really fancy a coffee from the Christmas menu. It wouldn’t cost me a penny, only the drive is 20 mins/nearly 9 miles each way so it’s obviously the fuel to get there. I do love sitting and people watching though and find I really unwind. On the other hand I can also wait until tomorrow as I’ll pass the coffee shop on my commute to work normally.

AIBU to go today to get it?

Definitely go !

Go! Enjoy the peace of a nice drive with some good music on. Also I need to know what is special about this coffee. What’s Christmassy about it?

I would go but you are brave asking mumsnet, there are so many people on here who barely breathe as they don't want to impact the environment.

Go and enjoy your coffee and ignore the Christmas stuff, it’s still too early!

Go tomorrow to that coffee shop when you’re actually passing

and go to a much closer one today

Enjoy

That’s what Sundays are for!

Enjoy ☕️

Life is short and we all recently spent time on house arrest. Do what makes you happy :)

Go! Enjoy!

I wouldn't drive that far just for that. Either cycle or go when I was passing.

YANBU. I like to go out for a drive with the prospect of a decent cup of coffee (and cake) at the end of it. If your journey is a pleasant one, then go for it and see it is as a leisure activity, no worse (and a lot better) than dragging the whole family round a supermarket on a dismal Sunday - why do people do that? Enjoy the coffee ☕️

Go today, it won't be the same on your way to work tomorrow. But check it's open on a Sunday!!

Yes! Do it OP.

I'm not sure why anyone would drive to buy a coffee when you can make a perfectly fine cup at home for 0.05p OP how frivelous of you.

In all seriousness, go, take a book with you and enjoy that coffee.

Go!

Sundays are for people watching & taking it slow, go get the coffee!

I wouldn't think twice about going eight miles away to do almost anything. What's the worst that could happen?

A 20 minute journey is nothing, go and enjoy!

Absolutely go

Relaxing and people watching on a Sunday is very different to a quick coffee grabbed before work

How to say you don't live rurally without saying you don't live rurally.

I drove 35 min each way yesterday to see if they had paint in a colour I want. They didn't so on my 40 min drive to walk the dogs later I will check somewhere else. (I drive to a river because the dogs like a swim and we went to the beach yesterday).

Everywhere is a drive because we don't have buses, trains etc. I live in a town.

This makes me so happy that I live walking distance from all my favourite coffee shops… both independent and a couple of the chains

I regularly drive 10 miles there and 10 miles back to meet friends for coffee as I have moved away from my local town. I don't even think about it being too far.

The nearest coffee shop to where I live is a 20 mile round trip. Go, enjoy the coffee and people watching.

Thanks everyone! On the way.

I'm sitting in a coffee shop right now enjoying having the time to scroll the internet and have a coffee.