I just knew it had to be some kind of hippie, left-wing conspiracy.

I'm working in an office where we share the kitchen with Mother Jones magazine. And they have a coffee machine for the employees, featuring of course, good, left-wing, shade-grown coffee beans and such. But I could not find anywhere, any stirrers. So I would constantly be using a new spoon everytime I would get more coffee and I felt like that was just such a waste of having to wash spoons and stuff. So this morning I finally asked about where the stirrers were and they laid into me about how it's terrible to waste all those little plastic pieces for such a thing. They then proceeded to create a communal spoon on a dish for all to use. Hippies. I'll never understand.