TheScarlettChad Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 She was being nice, I'd have lied and said "Yeah I picked it up, cheers, I'll get you one next time I see you" Â Not like she can know you did or didn't get it, right? Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted August 1, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted August 1, 2023 Being serious, it sounds like you’re getting stuck in a rut working at home, and she did you a favour just breaking the cycle.  You will get a lunch break in the day, use this to go to the coffee shop and treat yourself to one.  It will make things better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 1, 2023 Moderators Share Posted August 1, 2023 Only slightly related but it sounds like you should get a bike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 9 hours ago, TheScarlettChad said: She was being nice, I'd have lied and said "Yeah I picked it up, cheers, I'll get you one next time I see you"   I’d have found a coffee shop 15 minutes away from her house and done the same thing but at like 9:30pm. See how she likes thoughtless generosity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 9 hours ago, Thunderplex said: Being serious, it sounds like you’re getting stuck in a rut working at home, and she did you a favour just breaking the cycle.  You will get a lunch break in the day, use this to go to the coffee shop and treat yourself to one.  It will make things better. I do. I walk the dogs at lunch and go to the coffee shops in my own convenience. It was 4pm in the afternoon Plexy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 It was a really lovely gesture that didn't quite go right. Â I think you did the right thing by going and getting it. Â The rest of it sucks, but in a very first world problem way. If she offers to do it again, just tell her the whole thing as a funny story and next time tell the people in the coffee shop to make a fresh one when you get there! Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 That’s all very grown up and mature but I have a better idea, and hear me out. You order her a nice iced coffee that all the kids love these days but order it on a really hot day so by the time she gets there it’s warm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAREBEAR LUVVA Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 If there's a second time, maybe ask her if she can give your name to the people in the coffee shop then they can make your drink when you arrive instead of making it straight away and leaving it there to get cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP RULZ Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 Does seem very odd from the Coffee shops perspective at least So they made a coffee and just left it on the counter for 45 mins and when you came in and gave your name they gave you what would be a very obviously Cold Coffee by that point? Surely it makes sense for them to just make it when you came in As someone who doesn't drink coffee is that a normal thing where Coffee shops take orders like that and just make them immediately and leave them for ages until the customer comes in? As others said it sounds a more misguided gesture, where the thought was in the right place but executed poorly or she assumed the coffee shop would make it when you arrived at least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarlettChad Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 3 minutes ago, MVP RULZ said: Does seem very odd from the Coffee shops perspective at least So they made a coffee and just left it on the counter for 45 mins and when you came in and gave your name they gave you what would be a very obviously Cold Coffee by that point? Surely it makes sense for them to just make it when you came in As someone who doesn't drink coffee is that a normal thing where Coffee shops take orders like that and just make them immediately and leave them for ages until the customer comes in? As others said it sounds a more misguided gesture, where the thought was in the right place but executed poorly or she assumed the coffee shop would make it when you arrived at least I've seen it in Starbucks at least. They leave it on the counter, until someone picks it up. I forget sometimes mine is on there and i panic and think I've taken someone elses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 39 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said: That’s all very grown up and mature but I have a better idea, and hear me out. You order her a nice iced coffee that all the kids love these days but order it on a really hot day so by the time she gets there it’s warm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted August 2, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted August 2, 2023 It'll hopefully become a funny anecdote sometime in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted August 2, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted August 2, 2023 I like coffee. I’m also an adult and would have just been up front and said, “Thanks, it’s a lovely gesture, but a bit out of the way for me to pick up” and either left it at that, or arranged an actual meet-up for coffee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 2, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted August 2, 2023 (edited) Something about getting on a bus to Birmingham and back to get the coffee. Can't be arsed to come up with an actual joke. Â Â Â Like usual, waheyyyyyy Edited August 2, 2023 by Carbomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 40 minutes ago, Your Fight Site said: I like coffee. I’m also an adult and would have just been up front and said, “Thanks, it’s a lovely gesture, but a bit out of the way for me to pick up” and either left it at that, or arranged an actual meet-up for coffee. Oh piss off Your Shite Site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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