The other day, a Chinese woman with a thick Northern Mandarin accent (I know, because my Dad has the same accent) in front of me ordered a grande Americano, and asked for 2 more empty grande cups.
I was puzzled at first. However, after she received her order, she waved to her two comrades standing at the far corner. The three of them proceeded to push everyone (myself included) out of the way and hogged the sugar/milk service bar and began to split the grande Americano into 3 equal parts amongst the 3 grande cups they had in total. Two of them filled the rest of their grande cups with coffee cream, while the woman (who originally made the purchase of the grande Americano) walked straight back to the kiosk and asked the barista for "a lee tell beet of soya pwease, vewy ah-lar-gic to cweam and milka". At the end, all three of them laughed, chatted, and walked away with a grande Starbucks coffee each in their hands.
Discuss.
3 comments:
Ah, the ghetto latte. I am not surprised by this behavior either at the counter or at the milk/cream bar. I think it's unfortunate that this happens but at the same time I don't think there's anything S'bucks could do to combat it other than to... charge for extra cups? refuse to allow you access to the milk/cream? Ridiculous. Unfortunately I think folks like that give Chinese people a bad name, don't you agree?
I could write a book just about the habits of people from China.
For instance, we were in China last week, and at dinner one of the guys at the table across from us blew a snot-rocket right on the floor. It was disgusting! Even his comrades were appalled!
aiy, hai gum gah lah. at least she bought an americano instead of its cheaper alternative - cawfee af dah dei.
i'm surprised they didn't decide to sit down and proceed to clip their finger nails...
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