sometimes i see some interesting characters at starbucks. actually, a lot of our regular customers are probably some of the weirdest people i have met. we have a lot of amazing customers too, but it is the weird ones that can make or break your day if you let them! however, most of the time it is just pretty entertaining to me~

so yesterday i worked 5:30a.m.-1:00p.m. it started out pretty normal and then several things happened that were just so weird i am still laughing about them.

1.  this lady orders a tall, soy, no foam, latte. she is foreign and i can’t really understand what she is saying to me at the window so i am just smiling and being polite.  i hand her drink out the window to her. i leave the window open and turn around, thinking i am about to greet the next customer because she should have already driven off, and she is sitting there, holding her finger up with foam on it, wagging it around and yells at me “i said NO FOAMMMMMMMM” so i offer to re-make her drink and she says no and drives off. so basically she has stuck her finger in her latte and then wagged it at me. this has given all new meaning to the “foam finger” for me.

2.  ”thanks for choosing starbucks, this is lori, what can i get started for you today?” the answer should be pretty easy, right? not for this guy. he couldn’t even tell me what he wanted to order, made no sense whatsoever, and sounded like he was high. so i finally figure out what he wants and he pulls around to the window. i walk over and he is wearing no shirt and now he not only sounds high, he also looks high as well.  i hand out the drinks and am reaching out to give him his money and see his bare legs and look up at his shirtless self and realize i can’t see any clothes on this man. if he is wearing shorts, they are so short they cannot be seen and so i really don’t know if he was wearing any clothes at all.  i am a little concerned about this and then as if things couldn’t get weirder, the passenger, who is wearing a tuxedo, leans forward and it is a girl. so i have  a potentially naked, high man driving the car and a woman in a tuxedo in the passenger seat. ummmmmmm??? they came back through the drive thru today and i had the pleasure of other people seeing them and understanding exactly what i was talking about so they know i am not making it up. why would i even make it up? and yes, today he still looked naked and she was not wearing a tux but was wearing a suit and tie….

3. working at starbucks, you are supposed to connect with customers. so i ask the lady how she is doing. big mistake. this is basically the dialouge….”oh i’m okay. well not really that good. i just found out i have to have knee surgery next week, so i am treating myself today (to the sweet tea she ordered. all i am saying is, if i was treating myself, it would be to like cake or something. not sweet tea. but whatev i digress…) because i am really anxious about it. my last surgery didn’t go that well. actually the last 2 they didn’t really repair what they were supposed to. this will be the 3rd knee surgery in 3 years. i hope that my new doctor is good. i hear he is a good doctor, but he is a jerk. he told me i was fat. my husband said he could have said it nicer, he could have told me i was a little overweight and it is bad for my knees, but he didn’t. he just looked at me and said you are fat. my hairdresser said he is mean because he has a small “you know what” (and yes, she pointed down there as she said it.)”  i have long handed this lady her drink and her money and she is still talking while the drive thru line is growing….so finally she starts driving off and is looking back at me and yelling out her window “he is such a jerk but it’s probably just because he has a small “you know what”!!!!!!!!”

ummmmmmmmm really?