Maybe the barrista is one of those people who hear "laurel" when someone says "yanny", and mistook "Peter" for "Beaner".
“Maybe the barrista is one of those people who hear “laurel” when someone says “yanny”, and mistook “Peter” for “Beaner”.
Yesterday I saw that report on TV and definitely heard yanny. Later I was reading on FR about Story’s pole dance on the white house lawn with the steady flow of Brinks trucks delivering one dollar bills to the mainstream media and it came on again and I definitely heard laurel.