Starbucks

A police officer in Daytona Beach, Florida has been fired because of a cup of coffee. How is this possible you might ask. Well, apparently after a Starbucks coffee shop refused to serve Lt. Major Garvin with free coffee and wanted him to pay for it the officer replied to them that his response time may be a little slower should they have any situations there at the coffee house. Lt. Major Garvin told them that a two minute response time may turn into a fifteen minute response time.

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Gentrification and the associated homogenization are gradually sucking the life out of the once vibrant and diverse city of Chicago. Too many yuppies have relocated from the suburbs and instituted their shallow and materliasm-Obsessed lifestyle on the rest of the population. There are way too many Gap stores, etc. and parts of the city that were once alternative and quirky are becoming yuppiefied and suburbanized.

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How Bad Do you Crave Coffee? I can't seem to function at all if I haven't had my daily dose!!!

I crave coffee like a drug addict craves his high! It just does something to me. I need coffee and I need it bad.

I love Starbucks and really any other coffee product. I think a good way to even increase the crave for coffee would be to sell coffee beans like you would jelly beans.

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At least, it has officially taken over Portland, Oregon! About a year ago, the Seattle based coffee monopoly bought out Portland's own Torrefazione, which was a quaint little local coffee chain with 3 or 4 shops and always had wonderful coffee, pastries, and panini that you could enjoy in a very authentic Tuscan atmosphere. You wanted to eat your panino and have your caffe latte in the shop? No problem. It would come served to you in hand painted Italian ceramic mugs & plates. Ambience. It was wonderful.....then Starbucks took over, promptly shut down all the locations and that was that.

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I haven't blogged in what seems like FOREVER! I get online and my mind wanders off and next thing I know an hour or more has passed and I've surfed dozens of different sites... but haven't blogged or written a thing.

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I just watched a little clip on TV that showed an anonymous Starbucks barista confessing that when a customer is rude she will give them decaf rather than regular coffee. This struck me as oddly hilarious. I do tend to have a slightly twisted sense of humor.

But, honestly, too many people get off on being rude to store clerks, waitstaff, hostesses, bartenders, etc. I worked as a bartender in LA for a year and lord knows there were a few patrons that I wouldn't have minded adding dishwater to their martinis, making them really "dirty".

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