Strange Starbucks Conversation

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Completely average. Middle age, middle class, with her yoga pants days long behind her, and a Coldwater Creek 'Mom-on-the-Go' activewear vibe. Not fat, not thin, not hot, not hideous. There with what I can only assume was her husband, silently praying for the sweet embrace of death.

He probably died long ago and his soul just never found the light.

Did she look like this...

[Great-Kazoo]

If she was hot, this would have been a totally different kind of post.

Keep telling yourself that John

[Great-Kazoo]

So there is a second part to this story:
I have two Yeti cups with my corporate logo and name engraved on them. They are not pretty. One fell out of the back of my truck on the highway and got knocked around by traffic. It has road rash and a good sized dent in it. The other has been thrown in the back of our work vehicles many times and has been banged around by tools and supplies. I like to think of them as having 'character'.

I go to pick up my coffee and tea, and the same lady is right there behind me. "Oh my god, he has two Yetis."
I turned around and gave her the same line I give my employees all the time: "That's because I am fueled by caffeine and rage."
She repeated it twice, then told the beleaguered barista that she was "going to get that one in ink".

I really couldn't get a good read on the situation. One possibility is that it was an awkward public call-out, and that she kept it going because she didn't feel she got the effect she wanted.
Or she felt bad for having the first interchange, and was trying to engage me in conversation to seem normal.
Or she is one of those non self-aware people who wanted a conversation with a stranger.
Or she was hitting on me, in the way of 5th graders.
I really couldn't tell.

Could have said . Wait a minute while i text my dysfunctional acquaintance , you'd like him. Then have me show up.

[CS1983]

Could have said . Wait a minute while i text my dysfunctional acquaintance , you'd like him. Then have me show up.

I've always wanted to have someone say something about what I'm buying or whatever (disparity of items, etc.) so I can reply with a deadpan voice and expression, "have you not read the prophecy?"

[BushMasterBoy]

This is the woman from the previous video, filming her self from her bed! I feel sorry for her children. Now we all know what her headboard is like...

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This is the woman from the previous video, filming her self from her bed! I feel sorry for her children. Now we all know what her headboard is like...

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That is a lot of crazy in one human being.

Why wasn't she put on a mental hold?

[jmg8550]

What was she trying to infer about the Yeti cups?

[sellersm]

That is a lot of crazy in one human being.

Why wasn't she put on a mental hold?

Cuz she's probably running for some state/fed level office!!

[clodhopper]

I try to walk around looking grumpy all of the time makes me look less approachable so I don't have to deal with this kind of stuff.

I have spent a few decades perfecting this approach. The chatty ones get a pre-emptive stare just to push them off-center. Once you attain a sufficient level of angry codger, people see blue static ripple off you and start looking for a reason to not have to be near you. It is at that point that you find a life of peaceful nirvana where crowds part like the red sea and you are able to exist in a world without inane simpletons imparting their stupidity into your sphere of contentment.

[spqrzilla]

She wanted your body, Johnny.