i hate it when i go to starbucks and tell them to leave and inch of space at the top of the cup so i have plenty of room for cream and sugar... i get the venti house coffee and every single time i tell them to give me and inch of space. and they never get it right.. then i started showing them with my thumb and index finger what an inch was, and they still don't get it right. once i actually told the person that i wanted an inch of space at the top of the cup, showed her with my fingers what an inch looked like, explained to her that if she gives me too much coffee, i'd have to pour some of it out into the trash because the coffee is strong and i need room for cream, and also said that she was welcome to use the end of one of her fingers to measure if she wasn't sure just to get it right. know what she did?
gave me maybe 2.5 inches of space for my cream and sugar.
it was practically a grande in a venti cup.
not to mention that i of course realized that she must've thought that i was a complete nut.
which is cool... i realize that some of my closest friends think so too...
you know who you are!!
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maybe you're right, dad.. i'll keep that in mind next time.
Okay, I can't defend you on this topic. You're nuts.
but maybe it's the way the baristas are trained. maybe they are taught to fill it up, so the rubes think they're getting their money's worth for a 5 dollar cup of coffee.
ha! i knew it! you're all against me!
you know, i find it sooo confusing and frustrating when i go to a coffee shop like starbucks and they have like 500 different coffee thingys to pick from. that's actually why i just order the house coffee. too many choices make head go ouch..
what blows my mind is hearing the people around me order things like soy milk instead of regular and a shot of this and a bit of that, and they never can seem to just fill my damn cup up to the last one inch! how hard is that?! it really messes up my coffee:milk:sugar thing i got goin on.
bah! :P
You'd figure with the gazillion options that they have and are trained to have they'd be able to make such minor adjustments no problem. Alas, corporate coffee have strict codes. Deviate from the established parameters and you risk disaster. It is both a blessing and a curse. At least the coffee is more or less consistent most of the time, as opposed to the local shops which have a wide variability in quality and in fact depend very much on the employee behind the machine. Even in the same shop one day I could get an outstanding cup of joe and the next day something rancid.
Perhaps you must continue to pour some of it into the trashcan. I hope the hot coffee melts through the plastic bags. Would serve them right for not accomodating a simple request.
dammit girl, what are you doing drinking coffee without me. I feel so betrayed, did you ever stop to consider how this would make me feel?
Fine, have coffee without me. I hope you two are happy together.
About the corporate standards: A comedian talked about how he went to a Starbucks and ordered a medium coffee. The counterperson changed his order to a "grande". This prompted the comedian to rebut, 'no I want a medium.'
"Sir, we don't have 'mediums'. We have 'tall', 'grande' and 'venti'."
"I don't want a 'grande'. I want a medium."
This standoff lasted for about 10 minutes, neither budging. I forget how the story ends, but it kinda illustrates how rigid these arbirtary rules are.
Y'know, I heard you've quit smoking, so...
Wouldn't it be easier to quit drinking coffee...?
hold on there mister! them's fightin' words. now why would you ask someone to stop drinking coffee?
Does one also have to stop drinking soda, stop eating hot dogs, stop using cell phones, stop using margarine, stop driving vehicles that cause one to inhale toxic fumes, eat only organic fruits and veggies, eat free-range chickens who've had their feet massaged, walk around in oxygen pure environmental bubbles, drink water directly from the sky that falls from clouds not contamintaed by toxic gases?
While I agree that certain behaviors are very likely harmful, I think we should have some leeway with regards to the behaviors that harm only ourselves, do not create diseases that drain personal, business, and governmental resourses to treat, and that are....okay okay, done by me.
quit drinking coffee?! i hardly drink it! which is all the more reason for me to get it done right!
and btw, screg, i haven't quit smoking... yet...
TITT, it goes sooooo good with my coffee..
hee hee, i crack myself up sometimes.
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