How'd you like to end up wearing that drink, you old fart ...

[Slave to the Phone]

Usually, if I have to buy coffee, that means that I haven't yet had coffee, or are having one of those times when nothing else will do.

I am very aware that I do not function well when not properly caffeinated, so if I order an extra large with cream and syrup and get a small black, I just wander over to the fixings counter and mix something in and drink it. After I feel that I can properly order coffee, I will go back and order what I really wanted.

No yelling or screaming or anything. I needed the caffeine, syrup and cream are just part of the delivery system. Not to mention that I usually assume that I just mumbled something about coffee to the person taking my order and they didn't really understand anything else, so gave me something that sounded like what I wanted. I did get what I wanted the most, so it was all good.

[protege]

...people can be downright evil before they've had their cup of uppers!

Seems that some people haven't learned one thing. That is...you never want to piss off the person that controls your booze/coffee/food supply

[Sulhythal]

Alas, you now work in a dangerous place.

You stand between people and their caffeine(Their sugary milky caffeine)

I never worked where you do, but I did work in a small local coffee shop before and people can be downright evil before they've had their cup of uppers!

[Food Lady]

Oh, good grief. The difference between non-fat and 2% is <drumroll> 5 grams of fat. It's not even worth getting upset about if it's not an allergy issue. I don't know of any disease that allows zero dietary fat. In fact, we need it. I think he's just picky because he likes milk that tastes like water. Well, if he doesn't want the creamy goodness then I'll take it!

[notalwaysright]

Wow, I can't usually even see them making the drink, this guy must've been watching like a mean hawk to see you going for the wrong milk. Or maybe he just heard the trainer? In which case, go ahead and STFU, you had already been corrected. I like the chain where you work. They mostly get things right, I think they're trained well.

There are a couple things that pretty consistently are wrong, but I watch for it, and nicely ask for it to be fixed. One is whenever I order on the app, they almost never give me my whipped cream. I don't specify no-whip, and it's listed as part of the drink. I know why they don't put it on, because so many people don't want it, but don't SAY they don't want it. As soon as I hesitate at the counter, the barista will say, oh did you want whipped cream?

[Pixelated]

So today, for the first time, I got put on bar. (The Mothership is a coffee place so there's no alcohol involved ... more's the pity.)

We offer half a dozen different types of dairy and non-dairy items. One old asshat wanted non-fat milk (just so you know this wasn't an allergy issue). I was more than a bit scrambled by then and reached for the 2%.

Trainer: "No, no, the non-fat!"

Me: "Oh, right, sorry."

Old Fart: "NON-FAT!! PAY ATTENTION!!"

Luckily he decided to get snippy at the exact moment Trainer was correcting me, so I was easily able to ignore him. I plopped his (correctly-made) drink in front of him without a word and immediately moved on to the next drink.

Sheesh. I could've understood his reaction if he'd asked for almond or soy or something or even lactose-free milk ... but ironically the one or two errors of that sort that did occur (and none were my error, incidentally; the cups were wrongly marked) were met by "Oh, no problem, I'll wait" and a smile after I apologized and re-made the drink correctly.

I have sympathy, by the way, for the person at the till who mis-marked the cups; it can be really hard to hear customers, especially if they are softly-spoken, when you've got a bunch of chattering, beeping machinery and various alarms behind you.