Tell All Your Friends

I would like to take this time to recognize one of the most influential people in my life.  He is my great friend, teammate and Lover (Joking Lynn).

George Magic Sun,  has recently been injured balling outrageous with me earlier last week at Temple City’s Live Oak Park, where everything is put on the line, and people play for keeps.

For those of you out there who are reading this, please:

• Send a heart warming Card (Preferably Hallmark)
• Make a simple phone call
• Or simply bring George some nice chocolates and or a Alberto’s Burrito.

Anything at this point will be greatly appreciated to promote a speedy recovery.

Get better George, so we can play more basketball this summer.

Yeauh

Lebron James is personally not my favorite basketball player, but my god, did I witness history. Its simply one of those moments that I will remember for the rest of my life. I honestly believed that the Orlando Magic were going to sweep the Cavaliers in four games straight. The amount of trash talking that I was dishing out at The Boat , where I Witnessed the shot, was silenced when Lebron hit that buzzer beater. The NBA’s slogan this year is “Where Amazing Happens”, and while I absolutely hate the Cavaliers with every Yellow and Purple inch of my body, today Amazing Happened.

To help relieve the sour taste in my mouth, let me take you back to he most memorable shot in my immediate memory, The J that Derek Fisher delivered to push the Lakers over the Spurs in Game 5 of the Western Conference playoffs. For those of you that either havent witnessed or simply have forgotten this gem of basketball history, here’s a link from the boys at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7Z1Pq2s5I

Go Lakeshow.

After watching The Office– which by the way is one of the few shows that I watch. There was an episode when Dwight said that “If I could sum myself up in one word, it would be Jackhammer.“

This made me think, “Tommy boy, what one word could sum up your entire self?”

After a long session of soul searching, the two minutes finally paid off; and I have discovered that word. The word that best describes myself would be:

Balloon

For those of you that don’t know I work at Starbucks now, and you would be surprised at the people that walk into my store. Seriously the most whacked out people in the world go to Starbucks, some of them are quite possibly some of the rudest I’ve ever met. However since I am paid to give “Legendary Service”, I put up with them and wear a bright smile towards even the most inconsiderate of folks.

I’ve seen:

• A woman demanded than an entire batch of coffee be re brewed after it being out for only Five minutes, in the middle of a rush with a line of people out the door. And then saying “Haha I made them re brew an entire batch, Haha”.
• A fellow co-worker get a drink thrown in their face.
• Someone have their Espresso drink remade 5 times due to the fact that the beverage “Didn’t taste like it was 120 degrees”. When we have fucking thermometers. -_-
• A co-worker get spit on.

With all of this being said, I have a very high tolerance for assholes. Yet today I didn’t feel like going with the motto “The customers always right”, because honestly I don’t believe a word of that, the customer is most certainly not always right.

Just today a gentleman walked in and said to me, “This store is ugly, and the coffee is overpriced; why do I even come here?” Normally I would put on a smile and use the people skills that I naturally have, and pretend to actually care about this guys completely insignificant complaint, but instead I responded with a very eloquent yet asshole-ish response: “I don’t know sir, why do you?” The man was so surprised with my sarcasm that he demanded to see my manager, I said I was the manager, and he showed me his middle finger. “Legendary service”, at its finest.

Just another day at Starbucks

I got a blog.