Pretentious + grumpy
I don't like to harp on about it too much, but some perceptive people might have noticed that I'm sometimes a bit picky about coffee!
I know what it is all about and so sometimes, what I want to drink doesn't have a name. So today I took care to explain to the barista that what I wanted was bizarre and sorry to be That Customer but I was really having a bad day and I wouldn't normally do this but could he humour me this once and make me a double espresso topped up with just a couple of inches of hot water please thankyou? Like a midpoint between an espresso and a black coffee. No problem, he said. My pleasure, he said.
By the time I'd left the shop and realised that he'd given me a double latte I didn't have the energy to go back and point out where he had started to go wrong. Milk makes me sick, so I threw most of it away.
This was the best thing to happen to me today :(
I know what it is all about and so sometimes, what I want to drink doesn't have a name. So today I took care to explain to the barista that what I wanted was bizarre and sorry to be That Customer but I was really having a bad day and I wouldn't normally do this but could he humour me this once and make me a double espresso topped up with just a couple of inches of hot water please thankyou? Like a midpoint between an espresso and a black coffee. No problem, he said. My pleasure, he said.
By the time I'd left the shop and realised that he'd given me a double latte I didn't have the energy to go back and point out where he had started to go wrong. Milk makes me sick, so I threw most of it away.
This was the best thing to happen to me today :(
posted by Lucy at 5:05 pm
5 Comments:
this is one of the reasons i don't drink coffee. although i'd never have the balls to complain. i don't do complaining. i don't moan. i don't go on and on about stuff. i just don't.
I never complain. Ever.
It wasn't a complaint, it was just a mistake!
Just out of professional curiousity, Tom, what is your coffee house of choice?
Silly me, and my Nottingham-centric view of the world! I forget that not everyone lives in Lenton.
Your place sounds nice! I am sometimes a bit wary of places who do designs in the crema (they tend to be the type of place that also does stupid things like serving coffee in glasses); it's like putting a bit of lippy on your gran and hoping that no one will notice her walking stick. But I am sure your place would never do this, and if I ever find myself in Newcastle I will try it out!
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