I cannot believe that I haven't blogged about this before. But if I have, I don't see it here. Allow me to rant a bit about Starbucks. Specifically their sizes. Tall, Grande, Venti. I think I got that right. Can someone please tell me what the &*%! is with that?!? Venti, no idea what that means. But I'm unsure why it's bigger than a Grande. But my biggest beef is why Tall is actually the small. From now on if anyone calls me short I'm going to have a fit and insist that I'm tall.
Getting back to Starbucks though, sometimes I'll just say 'small' or 'medium' or 'large' - my favourite complaint is when the clerk (barista, puh-lease) repeats it back to me with the Starbucks size substituted in. Actually, my absolute favorite (should I say my Venti favourite?) is when they pretend like they don't know what I mean and try to get me to ask for the size using their pretentious designations.
I remember in a movie once they were talking about how those type of coffee places give people in our modern times a sense of identity. I'm afraid that may be very true. Awhile back I was with a friend of mine at her workplace and a coworker asked us to pick her up a tea from Starbucks while we were out. She then told my friend she'd write it down. I was thinking, man, how could we not remember what kind of tea she wants?!? Then she writes it down, holy crap!!! It took about a minute to say it! Something along the lines of a green tea, half skim/half cream, low foam, with soy, yada yada yada. Dang.
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