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Starbucks Story Tuesday: Special Brew

I bring my laptop to Starbucks to work on stuff, which means that I need to use a table that is close to an electrical outlet. There are three such tables at the Starbucks that I go to, and one of them is a designated h…
Starbucks Story Tuesday: Stir Stick

I’m a pretty normal guy and I live in a pretty normal city. Every morning I go to a pretty normal Starbucks where I get a pretty normal cup of coffee. I see pretty normal baristas, pretty normal high school students, a…
Starbucks Story Thursday: Birthday Roast

I have one of those Starbucks Gold Card. This membership entitles me to 10% off all of my purchases throughout the year, which means that the savings really add up for a Starbucks drone like me. Another one of its perk…
Starbucks Story Tuesday: Morning Grind

It is said that the breakfast of champions is a cigarette and a cup of coffee, although this is usually said by either a) retired, leather-skinned, elderly women on South Beach or b) Vietnam war vets in the psychiatric w…
Starbucks Story Tuesday: Upside-down Macchiato

“Everything okay?” Meredith asked. Meredith was wiping down the table next to mine. I had no idea what the nature of her question was. Was she asking me if my table needed to be cleaned? Was she asking if my hot cho…
Lost Ones

After work last Monday I got in my car, turned the ignition, and fired up my iPod. The first song to play on the shuffle setting was Lost Ones by Lauryn Hill. I smirked when I heard it because it seemed like this wa…
Starbucks Story Tuesday: Coffee Creamer

Even though I’ve known of Meredith at Starbucks for over a year now, it’s only been over the past few months that I’ve developed a quasi-crush on her. I’m certain that this crush is just an illusion. I know that I have…
Starbucks Story Tuesday: Brevenoia

Something peculiar has been going on with the Starbucks baristas for the past two weeks. Except for one or two of them, they generally don’t care about me or acknowledge my existence, even though I’ve been going there…
Starbucks Story Tuesday: Aged Espresso

There’s an old lady named Betty who occasionally hangs out at Starbucks. She’s very sweet because she talks to everyone at the store, but she’s kind of crazy because no one knows what the hell she is ever talking about.…
Starbucks Story Tuesday: Failure Frappuccino

Whenever I go to Starbucks I almost always get regular coffee or some kind of espresso drink. I don’t usually get their Frappuccinos because they don’t do anything for my insatiable need for caffeine. But I will get th…

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