Originally Posted By onlyme Well, the patio at our neighborhood Starbucks is packed with these people. If that's their thing, that's ok with me. So, you're going to start a poll?? ok.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <So, you're going to start a poll?? ok.> Would it bother you if I started a poll? My point is that people see what they want to see. If people have an already negative view of Starbucks [you know, Starbucks is evil and runs Mom and Pop coffee shops out of business et al], then they're probably more apt to have other negative thoughts about Starbucks that tie into that -- it's over-priced, people hold the cups to 'look cool,' there are these people smoking and drinking coffee and 'making the scene.' A poll though. That's crazy. So crazy, I just might do it!
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I've not seen people doing this at Starbucks. Has anyone else?" Nope. Then again, I'd have to go to a Starbucks.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip ^^^ Duh... been writing to much email this morning. Signed the post with my name. Dumb.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip ^^^ And now I didn't even spell too properly. I better get of the 'puter and go to lunch.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "^^^ Duh... been writing to much email this morning. Signed the post with my name. Dumb. " I though that was some new requirement. I was going to start signing things "Irv".
Originally Posted By onlyme Seems like, with a lot of my posts, you misinterpret what I say, or just don't realize I'm being a smart@$$. Of course, you don't know me, so you don't know where I'm coming from. So...I love Starbucks. At least 2-3 times a week, I'm there. I've tried, but can't make my coffee as good as they do. I buy different blends there all the time. I just bought some Cafe Estima,,,man, it's good. And the comment I made about people sitting around trying to look cool, is somewhat true, but manly it was just a silly observation, not a putdown. And the 'poll' thing,,,,,that was a joke, really.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Seems like, with a lot of my posts, you misinterpret what I say, or just don't realize I'm being a smart@$$.> Could be, onlyme. I've been a bit testy over the past couple of days. Sorry. It happened when I saw 'Meet the Robinsons' over the weekend. It made me crabby.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 Someone should start a thread sometime about our convenience-oriented society and what impact, if any, it has on individual initiative, expectations of people in our modern society, exagerrated self-esteem caused by virtually every advertisement telling us things like - "Go ahead, you deserve it; you're special!" etc. I'd start one now, but have no incentive to do it because it might inconvenience me! (-;
Originally Posted By jonvn "I've not seen people doing this at Starbucks. Has anyone else?" Um, no. Smoking is illegal inside anyway. I have seen people go in, and read the paper or work on a laptop, though. I didn't think they looked cool or were trying to.
Originally Posted By onlyme All of the SBs near me have patios. That is where you will find the people sucking on both, their coffee and their cigarettes. Which is fine. I'm not complaining.
Originally Posted By jonvn Where do you live? People around here don't even smoke outside. Most people don't smoke anymore.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Where do you live? People around here don't even smoke outside. Most people don't smoke anymore." Do you get out much? I just came back from Arizona. It seems like EVERYBODY smokes there. Indoors, outdoors, and everywhere in between. There's a restaurant in Tempe called The Heart Attack Grill that sells cigarettes for dessert.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://www.heartattackgrill.com/" target="_blank">http://www.heartattackgrill.co m/</a>
Originally Posted By jonvn "Do you get out much?" Yes. People around here don't smoke very much. Getting out does not include going to Arizona.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Well, since California has outlawed many things, I'm not sure California is a good sampler. If you donb't like Arizona, I'll offer up Nevada and Illinois. Smokers galore in both places.
Originally Posted By onlyme LOL. That's classic. Come on, people.....a quadruple burger?? That thing's gotta be 8-10" tall. Yea, you might as well smoke a pack after that, it won't matter, you'll be dead in a few years anyway. Back in HS, we used to eat Wendy's triple-burgers, but they weren't anywhere near as big as that. I'd love to see the people who actually eat those burgers. Something tells me, they're not the most healthy nor SLIM people either.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<< Yes. It is FUN. As far as I'm concerned, fun is the most valuable thing there is. >>> NEVER IN THE LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING HAVE TRUER WORDS BEEN SPOKEN...UH TYPED!
