A couple years ago, my coffee-loving friend from Delaware visited Seattle and I put together a day-long walking coffee tour that took us from Capitol Hill to the U-district. We started out in the morning from Capitol Hill's Bauhaus, up to Broadway's Vivaces, to the Joe Bar, down the hill to the U-district coffee shops with a few spots along the way (of course, there was no need to stop at a Starbucks). By the end we were downing baked goods to soak up the black gold eating through our stomach and talking over each other a mile a minute. It was a good time for sure. But not one I think I'll ever relive to that scale.
Here's a fellow who took that idea up a notch... well, 100-fold. During his visit to every single Starbucks in Manhattan (there's 171 of them) in the course of 24 hours, he had:
* made 18 bathroom stops * spent $369.14 - including an $80 bribe for a single piece of pound cake * bought at least 50 caffeinated drinks * 27 pieces of biscotti * 24 bottles of water * 12 cookies * 1 Asian sesame pasta dish.
You can read about it as reported in the NY Daily News or just watch the YouTube recap. There a bunch of funny points in the video... but right now my favorite is the freak out at the 6.57 point of the video. And the 8.44 freakout.
Yea - his presentation is a bit dorky goofball... but once you get past the first couple minutes, I think his obsession with his goal (and banter) is pretty funny.
No one can take on the Colbert-stance successfully.
Yeah.. totally. Do you think she'll be let-go for being a meanie, for taking $80 for poundcake, or being clueless and not seeing a camera recording the whole transaction?
Some people just have to be purists... and there's a lot more drama in doing this with only sugar or caffeinate - based products. The freakouts wouldn't have been early as dramatic if he was filled with $2 bottles of water. Right?
1 mag said on July 25, 2007
His Stephen Colbert-isms are annoying.
2 imaginary liz said on July 25, 2007
Yea - his presentation is a bit dorky goofball... but once you get past the first couple minutes, I think his obsession with his goal (and banter) is pretty funny.
No one can take on the Colbert-stance successfully.
3 imaginary ash said on July 25, 2007
Jenny's totally fired.
4 imaginary liz said on July 25, 2007
Yeah.. totally. Do you think she'll be let-go for being a meanie, for taking $80 for poundcake, or being clueless and not seeing a camera recording the whole transaction?
5 Levi said on July 25, 2007
OCD is a terrible thing, kids.
And seriously, hasn't this guy ever heard of decaf? Or, like, juice or something?
6 imaginary liz said on July 25, 2007
I don't know how anything would get done in the world if it weren't for OCD. Or at least that's the excuse I use. : )
7 imaginary stella said on July 25, 2007
Yo, homes. They serve decaf. And water.
8 imaginary liz said on July 25, 2007
Some people just have to be purists... and there's a lot more drama in doing this with only sugar or caffeinate - based products. The freakouts wouldn't have been early as dramatic if he was filled with $2 bottles of water. Right?
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