I... is there a limit on those??

[Flying Grype]

I don't think that's weird or wrong. If I'm in a convenience store getting coffee I'll likely put 4-5 creams and sugars in it. :P If she's putting it in her coffee she's not "stealing" them -- it would be cutting off her nose to spite her face if she "stole" all those flavour packs and made her coffee undrinkable just so she could "steal" them.

If she pocketed a bunch of flavour packs or sweeteners to use later, then I'd say that's a problem. Or if she took a spare cup and filled it with cream and whiteners and etc.

[pzychobitch]

Quoth Opalin

So I was at one of the gas stations the other day and saw something that made me half confused, concerned and annoyed, but wasn't sure if I should actually interfere...

A couple of women had brought in their own cups for coffee. No suck there. They then filled em up halfway, and then went over to the creamer and flavors... and then... filled up the other half (travel size cups) with various flavor packets, emptying about half the bin that was there.

So to the various peeps who work at places that have flavor cup/packet thingis... is that sucky? Can you somehow charge em extra for that?

I work at one of those types of places and sometimes I really wish that could happen.

[AccountingDrone]

Quoth PepperElf

buahahahah Navy Coffee ... I remember brewing that when I was working the mess decks. 2x the amount of grounds (or a little more if I was brewing it).

I still remember a dependent's cruise where one civilian was looking at it and asked if it was decaf. (Yes I was nice and told her that it was extra strong coffee).


Then they got rid of that and got some kind of coffee syrup and a machine. after that all the cream and sugar in the world couldn't make it taste good.

Decaf on a Naval vessel ... is to be laughing.

After the first dependent cruise on the San Juan, I would just go hide in Machinery 1 with Rob and the guys ... I pissed off the weapons officer by pointing out that a hichun class hydrofoil could outrun a mark 48 ... and pointing out everything else he got wrong. [I play a mean game of 688 and had most of the Janes manuals that the base library used to give away every time they got a new one.]

I have to admit, I got a serious laugh from the submarine episode of NCIS ...

[Gaki]

We charge 25 cents now for cups of ice so if someone tells me "this is just milk" I just charge them the 25 cent button for ice. I mean it's all ordered for "waste" use anyway but the CUP is at least worth 25 cents just to make a profit on it.

[Food Lady]

Quoth AmbrosiaWriter

Nope, not sucky. A tich annoying, but not sucky. All the creamer/cream/sugar/whatever went into the cup with coffee and so it will be drank (or at least I assume so.) If they had taken the little creamer things and stuffed them in their purse/pockets that would be sucky.

We just have a milk/cream dispenser, and then some pumps of flavoring (Vanilla, Honey, and Hazelnut.) Some people use a lot of cream/milk and some people pump a whole lotta flavoring, but it's going into the coffee.

Now, we did have a guy who would go into the cabinets when no one was looking and steal our bags of coffee (pre-ground/single pot sized stuff that we used to brew coffee.) That guy? Totally sucky. Also totally banned from the store once we figured out what the hell he was doing loitering over there until one of us got distracted. (We just got a new camera/monitor for that aisle and caught him.)

The same thing happened at the gas station where I worked, the banning and all.

[BrenDAnn]

C-Store actually sells packets of our coffee for people to buy and make at home...I'd imagine it came from the sort of theft mentioned above. As for the creamers...as long as they don't end up spilled all over my counter/floor--which they usually do-- I don't care. I do have a lot of folks that do half cappuccino half coffee, too. The C-Store I was at before this one had just gotten the full coffee bar set up with the flavored syrups, and the machines with the creamer/half & half in it before I left. Very nice set-up. Me? I prefer hot cocoa, either with caramel syrup mixed in, or with a touch of the delicious white chocolate caramel cappuccino my C-Store serves mixed in. To each their own, I guess!

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Oh yeah we sell packs of our coffee as well...

The guy was just a cheap-assed monkey licker. Why buy the coffee when you can get it for free by just waiting for the poor cashier to be busy before ducking into the cabinet and snagging a few bags?

[Josh]

99% of the time I drink mines black, but on those 1% occasions that I want cream I use about 7-10 of those piss-ant little cups in order to get the coffee to do anything other than change color.

[sms001]

Quoth Josh

I use about 7-10 of those piss-ant little cups

Pro-tip: Use a pen or key to poke holes in the top rather than tediously peeling them back, then "squish" the opened container over your coffee.