COLD TURKEY — by Steve Nadis
After dropping my daughter at preschool this morning, I found myself at a hip coffee shop near Harvard Square, ordering a blueberry scone, when I suddenly remembered my decision to swear off scones. So I asked to switch to a bran raisin muffin. I got a lot of attitude about this request, and outright rudeness, from two “servers” on account of the higher math involved in the transaction (40 cents owed me). Don’t you just love it when people give you a loud, ironic “Have a nice day”? The whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth, as did the dried-out brain muffin. Which makes me realize, it won’t be so easy to get off scones as I thought.
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15:10:42
still miss JIM BELUSHI
…..and DANISH’ES.
Cold turkey 18 years.
==z==
Me too, Z. Belushi was talent. Congrats on the 18 years.
Coming to terms with an addiction is tough enough without having to deal with barista abuse.
Yes Doc, you’re right again. I don’t like the term “barista.” Because without it, there couldn’t be barista abuse, coud there?
I guess there is no “customer service” in the word “barista” is there? Rude is the new cool.
That’s my second entry for the upcoming and so-far unannounced bumper sticker contest: Rude is the new cool.
Thanks Roses, I’ll try to remember that for the next competition. Let me suggest a variant: Rude is the new and cool cruel. Nah, forget it, yours is better.