I got strange looks from strangers when I was asking for a medium sized Caramel Frappe. "Ah, 'Grande' sir." "OK, whatever you say."
At first, I thought it was crazy to call the smallest cup "Tall", the medium one "Grande" and the tallest cup "Venti". Not until I Googled it that I realized there was a smaller cup they called "Short" (thus, explaining Tall). Grande is Italian for big (which only makes sense when you compare it to Tall), and Venti means 20 ounces. Those pretentious muthers.
Anyway, 'tis the season for yuppies to be enslaved by these pretentious a-holes. For every purchase, earns you a sticker. Get enough stickers, you get a slick Starbucks Planner in exchange. And if Starbucks wasn't pretentious enough (seriously, 'pretentious' is the only word I will be describing them), they also named the colors of their planners differently:
- Red = Velvet
- Gray = Metallic
So why are they calling their product a very ordinary 'planner'? Let's take it up a notch and list down a few possible names for the planner:
- Starbucks Agenda Rememberer
- Starbucks Unimportant Events Logbook
- Starbucks Circumstance/Excuse Recorder
- Starbucks Chronology of Affairs Lister
Those are just some of my ideas (thesaurus.com helped). What are yours?
i want a starbucks doodlebook
ReplyDeleteStarbucks Birthday Reminders
ReplyDeleteI posted something about how hypocritical it is to down huge vats of overpriced coffee ONLY to have a planner. I had a friend who bitched for 2 weeks because when she completed her stickers, most Starbucks she went to (at least 4, I think) ran out of planners by the end of December. And then there's a facebook user who sells 2010 Starbucks planners (PLURAL) and when I commented 'insane', hate comments piled up, one reads, 'Anu ba pakeh mmo?!. Tsk. Hell hath no fury like Ate 'Pakeh mmo' scorned.
ReplyDeletenot to be tooting my horn, but whenever i order coffee from them (i'm a real big fan of their Caramel Frap), i give them a huge smug face when they ask me if i want a sticker card. it's my way of saying f_ck your planner and your pretentious terms.
ReplyDeletethere's this person i know who had 6 planners by mid-December. she gave them away as gifts though. and she genuinely likes their coffee, so i have no qualms.