Prick

I needed to kill some time before meeting with someone, so I hit up the Starbucks on Belmont and Clark.

I waited in the line while the cashier chatted with a customer in front me about stupid bullshit. After a minute or so (a minute is a long time when you're listening to annoying conversation,) annoying customer went away, and I stepped up to order my Vanilla Latte.

She was way too nice. She was so nice, I could tell she didn't care if I knew she was being fake. She was great at small talk, and was cheery to a fault. I ordered my drink, sure to say 'large'.

She chirped: "Venti Vanilla Latte." to the Barista, and I paid.

I found a seat, all the way to west side of the window facing Belmont. My phone rang, it was Shayne. I answered it, and as I did the barista called out my drink.

I walked over and thanked her, as I was talking to Shayne. Taking my latte, I walked back to my seat. As I approached, a short and pudgy black dude, probably in his sixties, was rushing toward my seat. Pushing past me, he said 'excuse me', and plopped down in my seat.

"Excuse me, I was sitting there."

"No you wasn't."

"My things are here, I just got my drin-"

"You bag is here, but you not sittin' here."

...

"Wow man. You're a fuckin PRICK, aren't you?"

I picked up my bag and went to find a new seat, which I did on the opposite side of the coffee shop. As I walked away, insults bounced unheard off of my back...

Out in public...

Its funny the things you see and the realizations you make when you're home away from home is a public place.



As I was sitting at Starbucks with a friend today, our attention was drawn to the road where we were sure we would find a car full of screeching teenagers. Much to our surprise the commotion was caused by an adult male who was shrieking rather unintelligible words and flailing his arms about. He was 10 or 15 cars back from a red light and causing quite a scene. At this point a woman, I'm assuming was his wife and three children proceeded to exit the vehicle and walk away from him. This seemed to further infuriate the driver who then began pounding his fists on the steering wheel and flinging his body back into his seat. The shrieking at this point sounded much like a female victim in a particularly loud slasher flick. Once his family(?) was out of the car he attempted to pull over almost hitting or of the children. Seeing that this wouldn't get him clear of the road he very quickly pulled into the parking lot adjacent to where we were sitting. Getting out of the car he began his tirade again as he started walking next to the woman. The woman was very calm during this whole time even pausing to light a cigarette as this lunatic was demanding she get back in the car. We lost sight of them for a bit and 5 minutes later they returned to car and drove off.



Needless to say this was fairly entertaining until I realized that woman and childrens calm demeanor was probably due to the fact that this wasn't the first time they'd seen this type behavior.



The other observation I made at Starbucks today is that when deaf people drop change they don't realize it. Nor do they notice their dog's incessant whining.



The things you learn at Starbucks...





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