Starbucks Winter Hibernation.

I read quite a few blogs and the one thing that has always ticked me off a little is when the blogger leaves a 3 week gap between posts. I promised myself I would never do that....FAIL! So I apologize to the hundreds of people reading my blog and I will never do it again....I hope.

Hibernate like a bear.
          Anyways, part of the reason I haven't posted in so long is because of my abnormal amount of prolonged sleep. A few weeks after moving back home, my automobile decided to crap out on me, leaving me stranded to share my grandma's old 1987 Grand Marquis (which gets about 12 mpg) with my parents, who both have jobs. I guess part of the reason I moved back home in the first place is so that I can afford a new vehicle, so I'm lucky it happened now than at my old apartment. But since I am without a car, I have lost motivation to do just about anything and everything. So sleep has been my friend lately, for the most part. Not only do I blame my dead car, but I also blame daylight-savings time because it gets dark at 6pm and is nothing but depressing. I just want to thank God for a new car that I am soon to purchase and amazing friends who are always willing to pick me up when I am stuck at home.

"This doesn't taste like my drink"--"Is your name Bob?"--"No."--"Well that's why."
          Please do not be this type of customer. I'm just saying, I will look down at you if you do this to me. I guarantee this is on every barista's list of "Top Ten Most Annoying Customer Habits" and believe me, you do NOT want to be on this list.

So when you walk into Starbucks, you get in line and place your order at the register. Now any barista with an IQ of 32 will know that they need to mark your cup and label what drink it is, and preferredly put your name on the cup...then the person on bar makes the drink to standard and calls the drink out (and name, if labeled) to the person, NICE AND LOUD. And depending on how "rockstar" the bar person is, they can get many drinks out pretty quickly with the help of fellow baristas.======Now, as a customer, DO NOT go to the handoff counter and grab whatever cup you think is yours and just start drinking it before you actually know that it is, in fact, your drink. I am asking you to please please check for your name and please ask a barista for help in finding your drink. So many customers come up to the counter, see a drink, and automatically assume that the drink is theirs. I don't mind that you think your drink was magically hand-crafted from the time you walked from the register to the hand-off counter in 3.7 seconds, but just double check. It is far less irritating to check a drink for you than to remake a drink because you decided to drink out of someone else's cup.

OH! and as sad and gross as it sounds, I have had many-a-customer drink out of someone else's drink, realize their mistake, and then have the audacity to tell me, "I barely drank out of their cup, you don't need to remake their drink, they won't ever know"....excuse me? How do I know that you don't have mad-cow disease, swine flu or some other creepy disease?