Posted on 08/16/2010 11:52:40 PM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW YORK, - A New York English professor said she was kicked out of a Starbucks by three police officers because she refused to follow the cafe's ordering rules.
Lynne Rosenthal, who gave her age as early 60s, said she got into an argument with a barista Sunday morning because she refused to specify whether she wanted butter or cheese on her multigrain bagel, the New York Post reported Monday.
"I just wanted a multigrain bagel," Rosenthal said. "I refused to say 'without butter or cheese.' When you go to Burger King, you don't have to list the six things you don't want."
"Linguistically, it's stupid, and I'm a stickler for correct English," she said.
Rosenthal said a manager called police during the incident and three officers who responded to the scene ordered her to leave the store.
"It was very humiliating to be thrown out, and all I did was ask for a bagel," Rosenthal said. "If you don't use their language, they refuse to serve you. They don't understand what a plain multigrain bagel is."
A Starbucks employee at the store during the incident said Rosenthal was being unreasonable.
Our Dear Professor clearly wasn’t creative enough to say “I prefer neither cheese nor butter.”
Then she would have offended neither the Barista nor the English language.
Maybe calling the cops was the right move. People who are this narrowly self-obsessed should be locked up.
Charbucks is a snooty fad business. I’ll never go there a second time.
Why the hell would you waste your time standing in line and then pay three or four times for a cup of burnt coffee?
You could get a truly large and better grade of coffee at McDonalds for a buck.
Well, they will never have a problem with me. You couldn’t pay me $20.00 to go get a cup of their coffee. I’ve had their crap twice - the first and last the same morning.
Out of curiosity, do you really need to specify that the other half of your "half decaf" is "regular?" I bet you could optimize your order a little bit and just ask for a "half decaf" and be fine.
And how hard would it have been to say, "Plain multigrain bagel, hold the butter, hold the cream cheese?"
Why didn’t the guy just give her a bagel and forget about it?
She is right.
Which Starbucks was it in NYC? I want to make a trip there and order a bagel!
“Libs often wear scarfs in the summertime for no apparent reason. Please fill me in as to why, if anyone knows.”
Libs occasionally need to hide their faces.
I’d bet money she never uttered the word “plain” in the entire encounter. I expect when asked “butter or cheese” she said “no”, and things devolved from there.
Why didn’t she just take the free butter and put it in her purse for later?
It's by far one of the cheapest and easiest ways to maintain that elitist air of aloof irrelevance.
My office is two blocks over and one block down, right across from the building with the flashing red light.
LOL
I work at a university. Once you say ‘English Dept.’...you have said it all.
>>>And they are just waitpersons. “Barrista” is just stupid.
And here I thought barrista was an Italian word that means “coffee wench”. :)
Too each his own. I like my coffee pretty strong (it doesn’t take as much water to make coffee as most folks seem to think it does) and every time I’ve tried Dunkin Donuts coffee it has been not quite as good as a cup of Sanka instant coffee.
If I had a choice of paying for a cup of Starbucks or getting a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee for free, I would probably flip a coin to decide which way to go.
This could have been a terrorist incident or she might have taken hostages. I think they underreacted...where was the SWAT team?
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