The Little Chatterbox

Ok, so I go into starbucks the other day to get a caramel apple cider (highly recommended if you have never tried one) and the girl behind the counter asks me what size and I say medium and she says “No tall, grandi, vinti, or short?” and I say medium and she looks at me like I am the dumbest person on the planet and I have suddenly stoped speaking English and started communicating in Swahili. Now here is the thing, I don’t want to be judgmental here but I really don’t think that the girl working at starbucks for $6.55 an hour is really qualified to look at most starbucks customers like they are stupid. Secondly half of these options are in English one is in Italian, and one is in French. Who writes up a menu in three different languages? That makes no sense. Third, the word vinti is not even a size in Italian, it means outclassed. Now does that mean that starbucks is trying to outclass me by thinking I am stupid enough to begin using a work that does not even make sense, or that I have out classed others by being willing to pay $4.73 for a cup of coffee I could have picked up at maverick for 89 cents? Fourth Grande means tall in French so which on is bigger? A tall or a grande? Fifth, a little research has reviled that the word vinti has been copyrighted by starbucks. Who coprights a word from another language?

So I have decided that I am on strike from the stupid starbucks vocabulary, I refuse to learn new words just to order a cup of coffee. And and since doing so have learned that I am not the only one. I did a google search on this and found 10,600,000 matchs for vinti. Most of which are other people like me complaining about how stupid this whole thing is.

So after my whole rant and new personal strike I walk into Jamba Juice today and look at their size chart only to discover that the sizes there are 16 oz, original, and power. What the hell people!