Sunday, November 8, 2020

Tumblr Post: Barista Encounters Real Life Mad Hatter


Man, anyone who has ever worked a customer service job will appreciate the fact that you never know what kind of craziness you're bound to encounter on a shift. It could be juggling customers' mythologically strong coffee orders, or it could be having to work with someone who is the pure example of chaotic good. Always something new in the life of a barista. 

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Text - taylortut y'all know that john mulaney quote "the things crazy people say mean nothing to them but everything to me?" every time i hear that quote, i think about how i got this light-up pen

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Text - taylor-tut i got this pen four years ago when i was working as a barista at starbucks. I was on the registers and taking the order of this woman, who ordered a nonfat latte, because she was "watching her weight" so this guy behind her, whom no one was talking to, for some fucking reason says "wathing your weight? but what about the wait for your watch?" (which is a completely unhinged response. like just complete Mad Hatter nonsense)

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Text - anyway this lady gets really uncomfortable and of the five people (me, him, her, the other checker, and the customer at the other register) who were now sucked into the uncomfortable silence, i decided that i should alleviate the tension by saying "you can't wait for a watch; you don't have the time" and then he said "oh, quick girl!", gave me that pen, got out of line, and left without ordering anything patron-saint-of-smart-asses You pleased a mad fae trickster

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