Entitled bitch!

[Garnett]

I get to the bus stop a bit early and think, I've just got time to get a coffee. Join what's a slightly long queue at Costa, but I should still be okay.

A very well-dressed mother walks away with her drink and the drink of her early-to-mid teen daughter.

I get to the front, place my order and pay.

Mine's next in line to be made when blonde swoops back in saying to the daughter, "You know it's so important to me, darling"

She puts both drinks down and says, "This needs to be extra hot".

And the staff immediately acquiesce and start making her a new drink.

My bus turns up and I have to shout, "I'll pick up the flat white tomorrow" as I run out.

Just wishing I had the wherewithal to add, "just make sure that's hot enough for the entitled bitch"

What's got me going is that from what she said when she came back in, it sounded like the daughter placed the order and forgot to specify temperature at the time.

[thecatfromjapan]

There's something going badly wrong in your life if something this minor provokes so much hate towards an unknown person.

It's really not good to be feeling this wound up. It's a cliche - but it's a cliche for a reason - you have one life. If you live it feeling so at odds with your existence that something this small 'breaks' you, you're living it wrong. Life shouldn't fit you like too-tight shoes you are forced to walk in. You only get one chance: you deserve shoes that fit and make you happy.
Get up earlier and do something that makes you happier. Walk part of the route to work. Change your job.
Your whole joy in being shouldn 't rest on whether you can squeeze in a cup of coffee before getting on the bus.

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

You're assumptions on 'well off' are completely off and make you sound bitter. My parents are 'well off' thanks to forty years of hard work and sheer determination.

[Oysterbabe]

Hopefully you'll get a coffee soon and cheer up.

[Busybuzzybumblebee]

Hmm, sound jealous of people who you perceive to be well off. So what is she was well off, what difference does it make, would you have made your snide comment had she been what you thought of as poor?

[bakeoffcake]

Someone got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.

Hope you're mood improves before you get to work.

[thecatfromjapan]

. If you feel anger at economic disadvantage (which is rational) work for a political solution. Trying to decode sartorial semiotics in order to interpret fleeting social situations, then emotionally over-investing and over-interpreting those situations -and individuals involved- is nearly always exhausting and pointless.

[SoupDragon]

And I definitely do have a prejudice against well-off people throwing their weight around

How about not well off people who throw their weight around? Surely what any normal person would object to is simply people throwing their weight around.

[acasualobserver]

In the olden days, before there were so many coffee shops, we used to take a flask.

[Lanark2]

I do dislike people who don't get that part of your job of being in a queue is the efficiency of the process you are in. I frequently get a quick to make coffee as a nod to the greater good, and am happy to return cups to the kitchen or step out if someone is clearly in a rush. To me it's what you do. You show your social power more by making things work than you do by holding everything up until you are satisfied.

[SoupDragon]

"I'll pick up the flat white tomorrow"

Isn't shouting this at the staff "entitled bitch" behaviour though? You are expecting them to remember who you are, that you paid for this and will pick it up tomorrow. Let's hope they've kept it hot for you... :o

[GooseberryRoolz]

"Oh mum, please don't go back and complain and make a scene!"

Ha, yes. That's what I would guess

[originalmavis]

How do you get extra hot coffee?

[thecatfromjapan]

But ... I give you A+ for super-arresting, controversial thread title and A for the immediacy of your use of present tense in first paragraph. Really liked that.

[ExConstance]

YABU for wasting your money on shop coffee in the morning, buy yourself a decent espresso machine and enjoy one for a fraction of the price before you go (or you could even take it with you)

[GooseberryRoolz]

Get an insulated mug and a decent coffee maker OP. Life's too short for rush hour queues anyway.

[OttiliaVonBCup]

Do people order extra hot coffee?

How do you drink it? It's it bloody scalding? Would you have to wait for it to cool down a bit to be able to drink it?

[DelphiniumBlue]

I think its pretty appalling that she should have to ask for it to be extra hot! It should be hot in the first place. And no, she shouldn't have to go to thee back of the queue to get this rectified.

[GooseberryRoolz]

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[Lanark2]

Also you can be satisfied that people who drink their drinks extra hot have a higher incidence of throat mouth and stomach cancers..

[00100001]

Ex but then, we could say the same thing about lots of stuff. Why would you ever... go out for a meal? buy a skirt? buy a house. When they're a fraction of the price if you did it yourself...

[originalmavis]

I get my freebie coffee from waitrose.

[limitedperiodonly]

If she was well dressed that probably means she got up extra early this morning or ironed her clothes last night. I wonder if she blow dried her own blonde hair or had it done by minions at a salon.

[mayihaveaboxofchoculaits]

Blonde, as an unnecessary indicator? Obviously you are not blonde and see it as a mark of entitlement, along with bitch. Says more about you, I think.

[sheffieldsteeler]

so... if she'd stormed back in wearing a Waynetta Slob trackie and barked, 'I aym drinking a TEPID LATTE!' it'd have been fine?

[ThenLaterWhenItGotDark]

Envy is just so terribly uncouth.

Not that I believe for a nanosecond that the mother really said that to the daughter. That's just how you think people like that, that you feel so much hatred for, behave.

And darling, you sound like you're more than capable of treading on people's faces to get what you want as well.