Hey, they have cappuccino.

There's a small grocery/convenience store that I always pass on my way to school and work (and anytime that I'm traveling from my hometown of Podunkville, USA to the prospering town of Developing Podunkville, USA) that has one of those announcement boards with the changeable letters. Those are all fine and good (when they're spelled correctly, of course) but for the past FIVE YEARS, this one has proudly trumpted, "We Now Have Cappuccino". I remember when they put that message up, because it was in the fall semester of 1999, when I started drinking the stuff. I had just lost some weight and got a little obsessive about it. So somehow, I decided the caffeine would boost my metabolism. DUH.

Anyway, why won't they change it? Why? Why? Are they ensuring that anyone who passes through En Route to Developing Podunkville, USA on a once-every-ten-years* pilgrimage will know that they have cappuccino? Did they lose their ladder, and they're they waiting for a 13-foot-tall person to show up to change it for them? Or are they sociologists conducting some sort of experiment on how long it would take semi-neurotics like myself to fly into a fit of rage over an unchanging sign?

Hm. Now I'm craving cappuccino.

*What's the word for something that occurs once every 10 years? I'm completely drawing a blank here.