the bean in my world.

coffee.

the iced coffee is strong and stands up to ice beautifully. i am pleased that for $1.39 nobody gives me shit about what size cup i want, or how much milk goes into it. the coffee is seriously good, too.

i also had a nice iced coffee at garden of eden yesterday, the one on third avenue and twenty-third street.

not that i don't love my iced doppios from starbucks, but this is a welcome change.

6/26/2002 12:29:50 PM

since i had coffee so late this evening, i'm not yet longing for my morning cup. although the morning cup is served hot, which is so very nice. certain aesthetic problems in this apartment interfere with my coffee enjoyment. they must be corrected immediately.
6/23/2002 01:03:00 AM

bronxville/park slope tude
on the same day, or possibly on consecutive days, i experienced an old starbucks problem that seemed to have vanished about two years ago. i speak of the iced-doppio-in-a-grande-cup problem.

in bronxville, a hampton-like little town near my new nabe in westchester, a large african-american fellow refused to place my two shots in a grande cup. said he, "we aren't allowed to do that. some people will go over there and make a latte."

naturally, that is what i planned to do. so, i asked a co-worker for a grande cup and then right in front of our self-righteous barista, transferred the beverage into the grande cup. boy was he pissed!

then, in the starbucks on seventh avenue in park slope, a snotty blonde hipster-bitch said after providing the shots in the grande cup, "now you're gonna go over there and make yourself a latte, right?"

i said, "yes. exactly."

gentle reader, i've said this before. starbucks allows customers to insert their own milk and other condiments. since that is part of the service offered, the cost of which is priced into each beverage, i don't think it should matter how much milk i use. i could, in theory, drain a whole gallon of milk if it pleased me.

furthermore, starbucks does not withold cups. they gladly give them out per request.

this being the case, it follows that starbucks intends to provide access to (1) cups and (2) milk when purchasing a coffee beverage. as such, witholding the grande cup is wrong and comes from another psychological place on the part of the barista.

revenge

i returned to the bronxville starbucks this evening and questioned another barista about this so-called managerial policy. she said no such policy was in place. i told her my story and she said the fellow sometimes copped an attitude, that he thinks people are stealing when they do "that," "that" being purchasing the two shots and asking for their insertion in the grande cup. she was quite pleasant, and i was satisfied.

then i went to obtain milk and the manager was sitting nearby and asked if everything was ok. i relayed the story to her and it is my impression, dear ones, that mister tude will be receiving a large spanking. oh!

memories

so i'm sitting down, enjoying my grande cup with two shots over ice, when who do i notice nearby? none other than the first boy with whom i engaged in underage sex with as a freshman in college. he wore a beeper and had the same laugh. he was enjoying a coffee beverage and was speaking to his friends with authority about the medical profession. it all happened at starbucks. really.
6/23/2002 12:44:55 AM