Posted by Desert Fox on Fri, 02/13/2004 - 11:31am.
Maybe those should have been semicolons instead of commas? Or at least individual sentence fragments? On the other hand, if I drank coffee, I wouldn't be very tempted by the fact that drinking a particular type would remind me of 'walking around'. Weird.
My gripe with Starbucks, besides the fact that they are a paragon of Corporate Evil(tm), is that tea-drinkers seem to confuse them. I also only go there when desperate and without other choices -- in airports, in other words -- where I have this conversation each and every time:
"Hot tea, please."
"Would you like cherry, passionfruit, mango, grape, banana...."
"I want tea. Black. With caffeine. In a very large cup."
"Oh, you want Earl Grey?"
"No, I want tea that only tastes like tea. Not like perfume. Not like fruit. Just TEA."
Etc.
Cheers!
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"Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit." -- Edward Abbey, Vox Clamantis in Deserto
My gripe with Starbucks, besides the fact that they are a paragon of Corporate Evil(tm), is that tea-drinkers seem to confuse them. I also only go there when desperate and without other choices -- in airports, in other words -- where I have this conversation each and every time:
"Hot tea, please."
"Would you like cherry, passionfruit, mango, grape, banana...."
"I want tea. Black. With caffeine. In a very large cup."
"Oh, you want Earl Grey?"
"No, I want tea that only tastes like tea. Not like perfume. Not like fruit. Just TEA."
Etc.
Cheers!
*********
"Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit." -- Edward Abbey, Vox Clamantis in Deserto