Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for October 02, 2024

Missing: Coffee for Italians line.

Is it longer because more people want it or because it takes longer to order them?

I like my coffee like my girls, warm and sweet.

My wife and I wandered into some sort of barrista place, and while she placed her three-line order, I pondered the board. , “And what would YOU like?” the clerk asked. Before I could answer, my wife said, “He’s from Seattle.”

“Oh, then he’ll probably want a -” and she rattled off about a five-line order. I said, “Actually, I’m a Seattle native.”

“Oh,” she said. “So, cuppa mud?”

“Black, please.”

I could have something funny to say about this except there is no punch line..

All the extra ingredients are just distraction. They just don’t like coffee.

One guy said they could cut the wait time by using an alphabet menu with each letter representing a mix. His friend said there weren’t enough letters in any language to cover all the variations people thought up.

Another said people ask for all the variations so as to make themselves feel unique. Wondered if that worked. Reply ‘gotta do something to break out of the rut.’

Fine with me. I’ll take mine black.

I don’t want to say that I am old school, but I can’t even order a cup of coffee anymore.

yeh, but it’s still five bucks

Oh, I wish there was a line like that ! I don’t put anything in my beer. Why would I add anything to perfect cup of coffee.

i’d be in that simple line EVERY time

I need to get my one, annual pumpkin spice coffee.

Less is more !

Simple could be Fair Trade decaf.

I would love to have something like this. I pretty much drink coffee, just coffee. It takes about 30 seconds from the moment I step up to when I get my coffee and depart. That includes paying. But I wait FOREVER for each person in front of me who take 30 seconds just to say the name of their coffee flavored sugar drink.

When I quit drinking alcohol I used to drink double double coffee from the restaurant next door. Then my wife kinda set me on to black coffee as she bought very good tasting coffee that did not need creak and sugar. then I transitioned to tea. i use a bit of raw sugar in my huge tea mug now for probably a decade. the boring story of my fluid intake.

More like, additional ingredients with a little bit of coffee thrown in.

You can not get simpler than a double espresso which is what I make to drink. A double fills my cappuccino cup.

should be: “Coffee Line” — “Coffee totally obliterated by unnecessary tastes Line”

Simple black for me.

What’s the fee for a single cough?

the last time I bought coffee at a shop (which was a looong time ago), I was the only one who ordered just plain coffee… I’m surprised a mob didn’t stone me!

Ha ha! The Old Sarge wishes every coffee shop would do this!

I’d be first in line on the left…

I would definitely be on the left here. Wait wait, is there some kind political statement in this gag or just coincidence.

BINGO! I have been lobbying for this for YEARS. Why should we coffee-lovers have to wait, while baristas are doing performance art with additives to coffee-flavored milk drinks?