Chilly nights, orange leafs crunching under your brand-new boots, racing through corn mazes, and nestling inside on a rainy day drinking… wait? What’s that in your hand? A pumpkin what now? Please tell me you did not order a pumpkin spice latte. Oh no, you did. Listen to me very carefully as I tell you the reasons ordering a pumpkin spice latte should not be on your fall to-do list.

Reason number one: you have such a short time here on earth do you really want to spend it drinking fake pumpkin?

Now I could give you the list of fake preservatives found in a pumpkin spice lattes, but you would most likely retaliate by stating that almost everything these days has preservatives in them, so I won’t.  I will simply say that a better drink to replace a pumpkin spice latte with is fresh apple cider. Now if you tell me you hate apples, I might seriously faint.

Apple cider is one of the best drinks ever made and if going to an apple tree farm and picking apples while drinking fresh apple cider wasn’t on your fall to-do list, then it should be now.

Reason number two: Drinking them can make you gain weight

Okay, I’m not saying by drinking one tall pumpkin spice latte you’ll gain 10 pounds, but in an article written by “The Daily Mail” last year, they will slow down your metabolism and make your appetite grow, which will cause your body to store those extra calories. We are not aloud to gain weight until Aunt Martha brings out the Christmas cookies.

Reason number three: Do you really want to be that friend?

Imagine this, you and your favorite group of friends stroll into Starbucks in your new warm scarfs and fancy boots you spent way too much on. Then you all walk up to the cashier and everyone places their orders, but as soon as you let those three, simple words out of your mouth you immediately regret it.

Can you imagine all your friends’ faces as you order a pumpkin? Spice? Latte? Now that’s tragic.

So as you can see the Pumpkin Spice Latte is the worst, most disgustingly evil thing to ever be put on the planet. Next time you go to a coffee shop make sure you re-think your order.