How do you ask for coffee?

[An Officer]

Starbucks does suck royally in almost everything... but what makes them is the fact they are so flexible... I have not yet seen another cafe in my area that makes a white chocolate mocha, and the syrup they use for that is so thick and gives the milk a really creamy texture. Every time I try to leave them, they come up with something no one else has that's pretty much unbeatable. And I do like me some whole milk, and too many places have taken to not stocking any at all. When I'm ordering a venti with cream, you better believe I'm not thinking about calories. If I'm having a decadent drink, it better be truly decadent. Since I am not in the habit of having a venti daily, I don't have to torture myself watering everything down.

My only beef is they haven't switched to organic yet, you can taste the difference in flavour in the milk and coffee. Sometimes though, you just need an irresponsibly massive dose of syrup and coffee, enough to fell an elephant, and it has to be Starbucks, who needs hard drugs?

Normally Le Pain Quotidien meets all my needs, but when you have a craving for a white choc drink, none to be found there... if they were willing to add that one syrup to their shelves I would be happy to never set foot in Starbucks again and get away from sitting with school kids and loud students at certain parts of the day... the clientele leaves a lot to be desired. Cool wannabe but never actually properly cool.

 

[propita]

I never ask. I don't drink coffee. I don't like the flavor, as a drink or as a flavor in literally anything. Not ice cream, not a dessert, nothing. I won't even kiss my Hubby on the lips after he's had coffee. Which leads him to try to get me to forget that fact and offering a peck. And then laughing when I wipe it off.

 

[Maestro]

When the blue-eyed brunette with the really ginormous breasts at Michelangelo's asks me, "What'll ya have, hun?" I have all I can do to keep from drooling and saying, "Coffee... and you."

If you haven't read it, it sounds like you might enjoy this book:

Coffee, Tea or Me?

Why didn't you say it? You may have gotten a good response

Quiet. Maestro is married and has a daughter, he's just a serial joker.

Maybe my wife could be talked into a threesome.

 

[ed629]

have[/i] medium. Would you like a Tall? Or perhaps a Grande?"

This is why I never go into Starbucks unless I'm in an airport and there's no other option available to me. Fuck that burnt noise. It's almost as bad as Best Buy trying to sell you $100 OMG GOLD-PLATED SHIELDED HDMI cables when you can get the same stuff for $5 on Monoprice.

On the sizes, I've them too. My response:

Me: "I said medium, how many sizes do you have?"

Them: "Well.. umm.. three"

Me: "Then the one in the middle... how hard is that, it's a medium."

On the gold plated HDMI cables... bought a 25 foot one on ebay for $7.99 with free shipping. And in the store, it was probably Best Buy.

Them: "You'll want to go with 'super fancy super special cables' because 'bunch of big words that are BS'.

Me: "So how much will the 'super fancy cables' really make a difference, the signal is already coming in over coax, 50, 60, 80 feet to the house. How much of a difference is another 2-3 feet going to matter?"

Them: "More super fancy words. And the signal 'blah-blah-blah'"

Me: "It's ones and zeroes... on and off... how will these make a difference."

Them: "Well... umm... you don't understand 'super fancy crap'"

Me: "Ok... shut up... are you going to get me what I asked for or stand there sounding like a drone?"

 

[scotpens]

Starbuck isn't as successful as they expected over here too. Takeaway coffee is just not in our culture. Walking while drinking coffee is just absurd (silly Americans have no sense of pleasure at all ).

That's because in our culture the motto is, essentially, "to relax and enjoy life isn't for you, oh worker drone, now get back to work".

I’s also that we value the ability to multitask. The more things one can do at the same time, the better.

 

[Amaris]

Starbuck isn't as successful as they expected over here too. Takeaway coffee is just not in our culture. Walking while drinking coffee is just absurd (silly Americans have no sense of pleasure at all ).

That's because in our culture the motto is, essentially, "to relax and enjoy life isn't for you, oh worker drone, now get back to work".

I’s also that we value the ability to multitask. The more things one can do at the same time, the better.

True, or at least it looks like we're doing more things. It seems that maybe in many cases, multitasking isn't any more efficient than doing one job at a time.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

That's because in our culture the motto is, essentially, "to relax and enjoy life isn't for you, oh worker drone, now get back to work".

I’s also that we value the ability to multitask. The more things one can do at the same time, the better.

True, or at least it looks like we're doing more things. It seems that maybe in many cases, multitasking isn't any more efficient than doing one job at a time.

I don't really care about efficiency, I'm just dependent on the buzz I get from continually distracting myself.

 

[ThankQ]

If you haven't read it, it sounds like you might enjoy this book:

Coffee, Tea or Me?

Why didn't you say it? You may have gotten a good response

Quiet. Maestro is married and has a daughter, he's just a serial joker.

Maybe my wife could be talked into a threesome.

Better be sure before you ask. Never know. You may decide you want the Republican nomination some day.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

If someone tried to make me say "grande," I'd consider walking out. I've never had that problem, though.

That doesn't java with your signature!

When on Romulus, Do as the Romulans

You're right, I should stab them in the back instead.

 

[ares93]

I ordered coffee today, "En kopp kaffe tack. Svart, ingen socker."

 

[Warp Coil]

Starbucks: "Venti two-pump vanilla latte."

Every day.

Yes, it's very sad.

 

[Satyrquaze]

"May I please get a large dirty chai please?"

No, I know it's not coffee.

 

[propita]

Some places are even offering certifications in "mixology."

"Mixology". A word that ranks right up there with Voyager's "interferometric" pulse.

In other words, "we stopped trying".

I used to calibrate interferometers. Not much to it really--they worked and the target was accurately shown on the display, or they didn’t work. In the lab, interferometers were used to test the flatness of things called, naturally, “flats.” Flats which were flat to within 1 micron produced straight interference lines on the display.

 

[ThankQ]

The more things one can do at the same time, the better.

I can tell you must buy red, white and blue hooks, lines and sinkers!

Some of us like to experience life, not complete it.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I usually go, "Give me coffee or you die..."

Even though I work very early in the morning, I am not a morning person...

 

[Bisz]

When on Romulus, Do as the Romulans

You're right, I should stab them in the back instead.

Now you're thinking! Though wait till after they serve you the coffee.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I've been thinking as far as coffee goes that I have to get out more, as in out of my area. My town has three coffee shops and they are all extremely small. They are smaller than the bathrooms they now build in big modern houses. This is not an exaggeration. If there were 10 people in them at one time it would be considered absolutely packed. Actually the whole town is very small as far as the shops go.. the barber shop is as big as two couches pushed together. It has one barbers chair to sit in. If someone is already in there you wait outside in the street.

Anyway. After many years in this town "the place where everybody knows your name" is sometimes very claustrophobic. Everyone has their own particular coffee shop they prefer but I know enough people here that it would be a rare day that I could go into any one of them and not see someone I know.

Recently I had to spend a week in the city center. I went into coffee shops you could actually swing cats in and I drank coffee. No one spoke to me, I was left completely alone. It was very, very relaxing not to mention the coffee was dramatically better. I wish I could repeat this experience without adding a lot of travel to getting a cup of coffee.

 

[Amaris]

It does seem like the most simple pleasures are the hardest to attain, sometimes.

 

[Eilson]

I like to say with some other way. I will say please give me a cup of coffee. I am a great lover of coffee so i drink it daily.

 

[mimic]

I don't. I had coffee once as an act of desperation, (it was the only "food" that would be available for 6+ hours and I was on an empty stomach) and it's one that I don't plan to ever repeat.