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As I mentioned before, I am in Florida for a few weeks. Five to be exact. I am at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center for Navy Dive School. Check it out here and wikipedia has a blurb here (I don’t know about he whole frogman thing though). So I thought that I would update this little blog with the daily happenings of dive school.
I am really excited about this whole endeavor. Coast Guard divers are a small, select group of people. I think there are less than 100 of them in the service. So just to be selected to attend the school is an honor.
I will attempt to keep this page up to date with daily news about the school.
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I should say “Fucking snotty little barista!” but this is my very first blog, so I thought I’d at least tone down the title.
I am in Panama City, Florida for the next few weeks and as far as I can tell there are only two Starbucks in town. Today is the last day that I will have a rental car for a while so a good coffee seemed like the way to go. I generally order only two drinks at Starbucks. An americano or a soy latte. Tonight I just wanted a coffee so I went with the americano.
Well, I will admit that I am a product of the Starbucks generation. I know how to order coffee drinks. I genuinely like coffee. Not that any of that has anything much to do with the rest of the story. Whenever I order an americano, I always order a venti in a grande cup. This should make immediate sense to most coffee drinkers. For those of you who don’t speak Starbuckanese, venti and grande are sizes. An americano is simply espresso and hot water. The larger the size of the drink, the more shots of espresso. Now, here’s a peek into my stingy little psyche. An extra shot of espresso is $.55. The price difference between a grande and a venti is $.30. Number of additional shots in a venti vice a grande? One. So by ordering a venti in grande cup, I get the extra shot for a quarter less! A WHOLE FREAKIN QUARTER! I buy quite a bit of coffee, so I’m guessing that over time, this adds up.
I didn’t come up with this idea myself. A nice barista in Seattle taught me this little trick. Anyway, back to the story at hand. I decide to go to one of the two Starbucks in town. I choose the hip, stand alone store as opposed to the one inside of a Target. This is how the conversation goes:
Cute little register girl: Hi, what can we get started for you?
Me: I’ll have a venti americano in a grande cup.
CLRG: -puzzled look as she turns to the barista-He wants a venti americano in a grande cup? (This was said with a quizzical tone and a puzzled look.)
Barista: -dead serious- You can’t fit a venti americano in a grande cup.
So I ordered a grande with an extra shot. I wanted to bang my head on the counter and ask her if she was serious. It is easily the most absurd thing I heard someone say in a long time.
