"And I never knew just what it was/ About this old coffee shop I love so much"

A sort of funny story from my daily visit to Starbucks today:

I standing in line to order behind a girl. While I was waiting, I decided to order a Pumpkin Spice Latte, mainly because my mom bought these amazing pumpkin chocolate chip cookies from Whole Foods. I accredit the fact that they are amazing to the pumpkin ingredient so I decided to get it. The girl in front of me also got it, so I thought, huh we better pay attention and not get the others' drink. So then I ordered my drink and the woman asked me if I wanted whipped cream on it. I said no because a girl in my Lit. of Horror class senior year was a barista and she said there are an insane amount of calories in the whipped cream. She also said it was rather oxymoronic when people would order a nonfat drink and get the whipped cream since it pretty much cancels out the "trying to be at least slightly healthier" aspect. Well, I'm all about cutting out unnecessary calories so I never get whipped cream.

So I said no thank you and one of the male baristas and I had a quick conversation about the formerly mentioned points. Now, the pumpkin spice latte takes a little bit longer to make (in comparison to a simple iced coffee) so I am standing there for a while. And then the lady said "Here's your drink Amy" but she had an accent so I thought well, maybe it's for me? I've also been called Anita, Ashley, Anna, Anne, and Annalee before so you never know what those baristas hear over the noise of the espresso machine. But like I said, the girl in front of me also got the same thing, so we both started to slowly shuffle up to the counter to get the beverage. But we were saved from stupidity because my actual drink ("And here's your drink ANNie") was also ready. We all had a little chuckle over the slight confusion.

Oh but it gets better. Amy (since we now know her name) sat down at the table across from me and made some comment like "Oh I'm glad that wasn't a mix up" and I said "Well it's okay cause I noticed we ordered the same drink" and she said "Yeah but I'm one of those nonfat but still get the whipped cream people". Doh! I just kind of mumbled, well that's okay, it's just not for me and then I promptly whipped out my iPod.