This is the + American + Red + Cross.
I happened to sit right next to the front door.
But, I do not think I have to worry much. They will not bother me.
They are phones. We all know it.
Two blocks further down, one comes to the “Foxtail,” which is a coffee place (think “Starbucks,” etc.) with “baristas.” I double the “r” in my notes so I will continue that convention here.
I am sipping my tea, and suddenly it tastes a little like Earl Grey. I am not even sure. I use to think it was such a big fucking deal. I hated it when the fucking utterly stoopid “barrista” individual gave the Earl Grey tea when I had simply asked for a black tea.
a Chinese mandarin tea master blended the first Earl Grey tea as a gift for Charles Grey, the 2nd Earl of Grey and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834.
It was to offset the lime flavor in the well water on Grey’s estate. There is only green and black. Earl is not some particular individual from imperial England—it is a flavor.
Take a moment to think of “barrista.” Have you ever encountered one who was in any way stimulating or inspiring to you?
The coffee is. But those are beans. The entire race of humans employed in the barrista line of work are utterly vapid. The proper approach to take to a barrista is condescension.
And YET - these person condescend to YOU! This is an indignity. Barristas are trash
It is not a good word. Even the word “barrista” sounds stupid.
Furthermore they should not be allowed to vote, not if they don’t get the distinction between “tea'“ and Earl Grey.
..pretty sure that what I am drinking now is one of them — but I don’t even care anymore.
Fu*k It!
Earl Grey is a great flavor - unless you didn’t order it.