December 09, 2003
sniffles
I know I'm going to come across as nothing more than a grumpy old luddite, but I just have to say it: I hate Starbucks. With a passion. Once or twice a year I end up in one of them for various reasons, and I always leave feeling stoopid, mocked and ripped off. I just can't see how they've taken such a simple concept and made it so damned complicated. It's kind of like a Micro$oft version of coffee - a gazillion "options" which you don't really want and which you can't really understand, because they're presented in some kind of pseudo-language. Maybe everything from Seattle is like that.
And yes, I realize that I'm in a minority here in being totally baffled by the whole enterprise. But the only good that I see coming of it is that the places are always filled with teenagers ordering some kind of fake-coffee drinks. If these children are able to understand this stuff at such an early age, they're going to grow up with big brains which are able to understand complex problems. Either that or they're all going to die at 25, 100 pounds overweight and strung out on caffeine. Society will win either way.
My latest incident at Starbucks came on the day after Thanksgiving, in an outlet mall of all places. No, don't ask me what I was going in an outlet mall on the day after Thanksgiving, but let's just say it was crazy. I guess that's something else I've never understood - why do people rush out and shop on this day?? And even worse, why the hell are people lining up at 5am on that day to get into places like Wal-Mart?? I mean, come on, think about it. It's *Wal-Mart*!
The only place I've ever stood in line have been Apple stores. And even then I give up pretty easily. Not like these people. Whack jobs. (Or should that be Whack Jobs?)
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Cute.
Interesting. (Although it crashed my browser.)
Yeah baby - beans and cheese forever.
Kewl.