When I order at Starbucks (which is rare) I do just use small, medium, and large. Can't be arsed to remember their words for it, and I have no patience to try.

will just wave you on through and say "Catch up on it next time."

We did that in the bagel shop. We also had a regular who was a cop who apparently had a very um, stinky patrol. He'd stand in the doorway and call out his order because "I really can't inflict this on y'all " so we'd run around the counter to him. He was very funny.

When I order at Starbucks (which is rare) I do just use small, medium, and large. Can't be arsed to remember their words for it, and I have no patience to try.

Yeah. Their insistance on using their own words annoys me.

ION, according to this if you make a much larger credit card payment than usual, the Department of Homeland Security must be notified: [link]

They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn't move until the threat alert is lifted.

I totally order a "medium coffee" at Starbuck's.

I have fallen to a new low: singing along to the On Demand karaoke on Oxygen's On Demand channel.

"Those cowboys sure admired each other's pistols!"

Speaking of pistols, last night I was watching The High and the Mighty, an airplane disaster movie from the early fifties. There's a scene as the passengers are boarding the plane where the little kid passenger is not only wearing a cowboy pistol and holster set as he boards the plane, but he pulls out the cap gun and fires it several time at the co-pilot (John Wayne). I was waiting for security to riddle the little kid with bullets, but they just let it pass.

When I order at Starbucks (which is rare) I do just use small, medium, and large. Can't be arsed to remember their words for it, and I have no patience to try.

You haven't been corrected when you do that? I always get corrected.

he pulls out the cap gun and fires it several time at the co-pilot (John Wayne).

Now there was a different world.

And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn't move until the threat alert is lifted.

That is INSANE! Fucking INSANE! What if it causes someone to be late with a payment? (they submit it on time but HS does't approve it till after the payment due date)

JESUS. I hate all the motherfuckers. They are all up in my fucking business! UGH!

You can still order a "short" at Starbucks -- they just don't put them on the menu.

according to this if you make a much larger credit card payment than usual, the Department of Homeland Security must be notified

I would like that to be false, because it is stupid.

If I were a terrorist, I'd totally let the CC balance rack up. Fight the power, down with everyone.

In Bean-related news, I just noticed that the loose tea from Coffee Bean has huge pieces of tea leaves compared to Republic of Tea and all the other loose teas (bar jasmine pearl) I can remember using. I'm assuming this is better for the brewing, right? I've only tried the one brand from them (English Breakfast) and it is nice and tasty. Poorly controlled experiment, though.

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You haven't been corrected when you do that? I always get corrected.

I smile and forget. They can make up their own language if they want. But the only way to force me to use it would be to not fill the order. And, really, I'd just find a Coffee Bean instead.