If At First You Don’t Succeed, Chai Again, Part 6
COFFEE SHOP, EMPLOYEES, MISSOURI, STUPID, USA | WORKING | MAY 23, 2018
(My husband and I stop at a drive-thru coffee shop for drinks. I don’t drink coffee, but I love this shop’s chai lattes, so I ask for one.)
Husband: “Can we have a medium, decaf, chai vanilla latte and a small peppermint mocha?”
Worker: “Sure! That will be [price] at the window!”
(We pull forward, pay, get our drinks, and pull off. I take my first sip and taste nothing but coffee.)
Me: “This has coffee in it.”
Husband: “What? I’m sorry. Why would they put coffee in it?”
Me: “Maybe because you said, ‘latte’? I mean, that’s what it’s called, but maybe that confused her?”
(We drive back through and pull up to the window.)
Worker: *looking confused* “Can I help you?”
Me: “There was coffee in my chai.”
Worker: “Yeah. You asked for a decaf chai. Decaf means coffee, so I thought you wanted decaf espresso in it.”
Me: “No… I hate coffee. Chai is black tea which has caffeine, so I just wanted that decaf.”
Worker: “So… that’s just regular chai.”
Me: “Yes, but without caffeine?”
Worker: *still seeming confused* “So… just a regular chai?”
Me: *giving up* “Please just give me a vanilla chai, no coffee.”
(To her credit, she did upgrade me to a large, and there was no coffee in my second order. But how do you work at a coffee shop and not know that tea has caffeine?)
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