To the Harridan who made far too much noise far too early in the morning

[sparkindarkness]

To the Harridan who made far too much noise far too early in the morning while I’m trying to get my coffee.

Yes, the coffee in Starbucks is ludicrously pretentious. Yes, there is a little coffeeshop round the corner that does far better and cheaper coffee, I know because that’s my regular as well. Yes, we know it has been closed for refurbishment for a long time. Yes, we do live in dread that it’s going to become excessively trendy to compete with the Starbucks. Yes, paying nearly £5 for your morning cup of coffee is very expensive. I agree with all these points.

But what do you expect to achieve screeching all of this at the poor girl across the counter? She can’t change the names of the coffee. She can’t lower the prices. She can’t open our favourite coffee shop. She can’t stop it being redecorated. Nor can the manager. You have a beef with Starbucks? Go to Seattle (I think).

Or, and here’s a concept, don’t shop there. There are 4 bakeries and a McDonalds that do different approximations of coffee within 5 minute walking distance of Starbucks. You walked past 2. They’re much cheaper if not nearly so fancy or as nice – but hey, you pay for fancy and nice. Or if the money’s so important don’t order that Venti Macchiato and giant choc-chip cookie – you do not need these. They are luxury items. You can get by with a Nescafe black coffee or a McDonalds’ molten coffee. If you cannot afford a luxury or think it’s not worth the price – don’t buy it. It is that easy. I want a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce to take me to work every morning. I can’t afford it – I take the bus. I don’t bitch that Rolls are too expensive. I don’t need them, I have no bitching rights for not being able to afford what I don’t need. Nor does she.

Comments

Random Axe of Kindness

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

I like my 5 shot venti americano.

Dunno what happened to the author they just stopped with no notice, a bad sign. Good stuff though.

These fit your complaint, sort of :)

Bean grinder
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The letter S
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Hide what?
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Goth
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Menial laborer
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Training Day
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Wage slave
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Clueless
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Ok, there's more but that's my limit
other than this:
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The thing is his banner Ad would have been better on a coffee mug.
"Not for use with crotch"

Wheeeeeeeeee

Use the Latte Grenade

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

After all that work I found this.

This goes along with my last post and is explody goodness.

Re: Use the Latte Grenade

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

hyeee, I like it - exploding coffee. And yes, that bis starbucks. So perfectly, terribly starbucks

[florarenz.livejournal.com]

God I totally agree with you! They opened a Starbucks in my town and as a Starbucksaddict I'm spending all my free periods there and every third person is bitching about the prices or the names of the various beverages or about the fact that you are not beeing served or about something completely unrelated *g*

Oh btw.: I'm not some random stalker I just read your entry over at customers_suck and followed the trail to you livejournal. Mh now that I think of it, that pretty much makes me a stalker but anyway...

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Personally, I much prefer my local coffee shop - but I also have enough common sense to realise you can't bitch at the star bucks because the local has closed down/changed. They've driven out the locals? Well, no. They've outcompeted the locals, and their prices are far higher so it's not like they've used unfair business practices to drive them out of business. It's not Star Bucks fault, it's the customer's choice.

And it's not like bitching at the staff will achieve anything anyway. I'm happy to rant about how silly it is to call them tall or venti or whatever, but the woman behind the counter has no power to change the name.


Heee, stalkers aren't always scary bad