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.

I've thought about ths (for a whole five mins!): you should write a diary - maybe in small bursts, throughout the day - it'll give you distance and control; you're good at writing; it'll make you laugh about things; it may even push you in the direction of a change of career.
I think it will make you feel massively better. I'm not being sarcastic or horrible. If I weren't on my phone, I'd give more reasons why I think this would be good.

Personally, I think there should be two queues anyway, one for the espresso bit and one (slower) for all the bucket sized milk fluffy marshmallows and cakes and shit. I hate it if I want a fix and am behind fat middle-class fat family and their babychino flake toast, sandwich, cake, mocha, cream marshmallow. With some extra spoons and 'oh did you give me the butter, yes you did oh I'm sorry I should have said black americano' bullshit....

limited don't be daft. She'll have mgocal hair pixies that do it overnight, so she wakes up a beautiful, entitled bitch.

*magical

I hate it if I want a fix and am behind fat middle-class fat family and their babychino flake toast, sandwich, cake, mocha, cream marshmallow. With some extra spoons and 'oh did you give me the butter, yes you did oh I'm sorry I should have said black americano' bullshit....

That's what caffeine does to you.

I hate it if I want a fix and am behind fat middle-class fat family

Now Lanark's caught The Rage too.

You'd have spilled it all over yourself on the bus, anyway.

You sound bitter and with a chip on your shoulder, OP.

Hmmph.. I have just found out that if I flew to Milan and bought all my annual coffees at once, it would be cheaper, and I would save more than six weeks a year in arseing about behind bucket-drinkers time.

I remember coffee in flasks. It had a really peculiar taste, too. I wonder if it went on cooking inside the flask.

I'm going to add that to the list of things I tell my children about the barbarian past.

Mmm bitter, dark with a chocolate chip..

Lol@ gooseberry rules 'caught the rage'!

The struggle is real.

That would have annoyed me too. Yesterday something similar happened too and as soon as it happened I knew I could complain on MN I was in the Post Office and there was one woman in front of me. She went off and I assumed that she had changed her mind so I moved into her space. I got to the head of the queue and she then reappeared and cut in front of me My mouth was open to tell her to bog off but then she got called forward by the cashier. I'm sorry but in my view, if you leave the line for 3/4 minutes then you lose your place. Just because you USED to be stood there, it doesn't mean you can have your place back.

Phew, I got that out. MN is great for a moan

On balance, YABU. Costa queues move slowly and clearly you had cut it so fine time-wise that any slight delay would have caused you a problem.

The degree of unreasonableness would be mitigated if the other customer's DD had got the order wrong (rather than the staff not making the coffee as requested), because the customer was then cutting the queue to sort out a problem that her daughter had caused.

However, I think you are being chippy, OP, because you perceived that the customer was an "entitled bitch" because she appeared well-groomed and wealthy, and called her daughter "darling".

Tea in flasks tasted even odder, japan.

ScrambledEgg yes but was she blonde?

I'm having visions of Edina and Saffy in a Costa queue now.

Didn't we use to make flasks of tea/coffee with Marvel milk though? So you got those attractive blobbles of white stuff sitting on top? Was that what changed the taste?

You'd have spilled it all over yourself on the bus, anyway.

Very true. I remember in about 2000 buying a coffee and striding all Sex In The City-like to my office. It spilled through the drink-through lid all over my top.

That was the last time I ever bought coffee to take away.

Paul- No, she was dark lol

I was in the Post Office and there was one woman in front of me...

There is a reason why people who work in the Post Office, banks, betting shops and driving buses are behind Plexi-Glass.

Perhaps that should be extended to people who toil in coffee shops.

Go to a Starbucks and order online via the app before you arrive. In and out of the store in seconds.

You are not allowed to take hot drinks on the buses here

You lost me at "bitch"