To think fussy people ordering coffee should always be in a separate queue

[HarveysPJs]

Drives me mad. I just want to buy a sandwich, and in front of me is someone ordering 4 coffees with very exacting requirements.

@emmetgirl

When I hear someone order a "one shot decaf oat latte" I want to suggest they just get a glass of water.

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Why is it that everyone seems to think they're the first one to make this incredibly insightful observation?

Yes, there are now more options for coffee than there were 20 years ago and yes, people want to buy them. People like options... that doesn't make them self-centred or pretentious as much as people love to throw those accusations around.

Equally, despite the race to the bottom that this has so clearly become, there is nothing virtuous about wanting a bog-standard cup of tea or coffee. As with most other things in life, you do what you want and I'll do what I want.

If you don't like the queues then either bring a thermos or accept that this is not your day to get a cup of tea.

Same for people ordering cocktails in front of you when you just want a pint.

They should be in a separate planet.

What annoys me is when coffee shops only have one member of staff who are taking the orders/money and then having to make all the drinks.

This is pathetic. If they were chatting I could understand but you have not right to complain about people ordering coffee in a cafe

I think you're right but I am that person. I just really like coffee how I like it and I can't help asking for what I want, exactly. Can see it's dead annoying.

I'm more annoyed at paying £2 for tea! ( I don't drink coffee).

I’d apply the same to toilets. This cubicle is for those who want a quick wee - and this cubicle is for those who want to spend 20mins doing God’s knows what...

Haha. I don't hate this idea - the fussy buggers queue.

I would often be in the fussy buggers queue myself, but I would get annoyed because I wouldn't like to wait behind all the other fussy buggers.

I’m perfectly happy for people to order their complicated coffees! But all in a queue together, whereas I’ll opt for the quick swipe my card and go queue...

You have to learn to factor in extra time in your day for queues. That’s life. If you want something, you can guarantee other people will want the same things too. Only going to get worse OP with an increasing population. I don’t venture into Starbucks, for example, if I am in a hurry. It’s likely I could be waiting 15 mins. Just think ahead.

Errr entitled much op

No one had all this angst when Mellow Birds™️ was all that was on offer. Sometimes when I’m in the queue in some identikit coffee shop with all the ”can I get”, “to go” and “to take out” Americanisms my mind drifts back to c1976, to the days of ordering a cup of tea whilst sitting at a Formica table in a cloud of cigarette smoke under strip lighting that made everyone look as ill as they probably were. Asking for coffee would produce a sigh and a search for a drum of instant out the back and take nearly as long to serve as today’s chai latte with whatever.

Since then we’ve made progress as a society and can now drink a complicated coffee in a smoke free environment that is no cleaner but has lighting that disguises this fact. We will not breathe in other people’s smoke but we may be tempted by a croissant with our giant coffee and may in time have a different sort of health crisis. That’s progress!

God no, OP, YANBU at all. I can't stand the smell of coffee, and in my defence I never go into coffee shops. If I did, I'd accept a degree of coffee-related delay. No, what I can't stand is when a place that was a perfectly good baker's, where you could be in and out with your sandwich/pasty of choice in seconds, now wants the coffee-drinking trade as well, so now you have to stand around while the faffing takes place. The punters seem to know what they want, but boy, does it take a long time to put together. Can I just leave the right money on the counter and piss off? No, I cannot. Ugh.

My grandfather shares the dismay at paying £2.50 for a cup of hot water with a teabag in it, so I ordered him a cappuccino once (oh I don't mind just a coffee), he liked the foam so it's now his go to coffee shop drink except he orders a 'cup of chino' 😁

[quote HarveysPJs]@SecretSpAD this will be my daughter in a few years time! She already wants her squash made with a mix of slightly more blackcurrant, a bit of orange - and sparkling water.[/quote]
Oh the irony, OP!

Unfortunately my phone and MN won't do links, but if you put 'Frasier coffee' into YouTube you'll get a couple of funny clips on this theme.

Please please please just get a life and find something better to moan about 🙂

@HarveysPJs

I’m sure it makes them feel superior to order the most intricate sounding coffee they can think of. And they never say ‘thank you’ - just a look of ‘not quite what I wanted, but I suppose it will do’

Why would coffee bring out superiority?

When ordering your sandwich which you are paying for, presumably you expect it to be what you’ve paid for? Why is someone ordering a coffee any different? They should get what they’re paying for.

A person with exacting requirements may have a real or imagined dietary needs/requirements/intolerance/allergy, or may be someone who is ill-treated or worse by the person who wants the particular requirement if it is wrongly ordered.

@BreconBeBuggered yep, I don’t go in coffee shops either - and I can completely understand a delay in such a place. This is after school run about for my children, it was a quick cornetto I wanted for DD. NT type park place, children waiting outside while I nip in. I’m standing there for 10 mins with ice cream slowly melting in my hand...

In fact, 'Niles coffee order' on YouTube is worth watching too.

@MissMarplesGlove

with a screaming baby

Oh god, I can't bear screaming babies in cafés. It means the poor old assistant behind the counter can't hear my order, when I really need a cup of tea to help with my headache from the screaming children.

See, not so nice, is it, to have your impatience visited on you?

I don't mind at all if people complain about screaming babies! You're incorrect there. My child was fine for the first 10 minutes in the cafe (a BABY cafe, this is, btw, so I might suggest if you can't bear screaming babies you go to one of the many cafes that aren't solely geared around babies and toddlers) - It was after the 3rd complicated coffee order from the one person ahead of me that we both started to get a bit impatient...

I know I mentioned sandwich at first - was trying to illustrate something quick i.e packet sandwich