Size Matters

Today I stopped for a coffee, seeing as though I left my coffee cups in the car and they were filled with stale coffee backwash. I went to buy a new refillable coffee mug and it said on it, "First refill is free". The mug was supposed to be $2.50, but my total came out to $2.60.

When I told the woman that she forgot to charge me for the coffee she told me that the first refill was free. Then I reminded her that I didn't get a refill yet, that it was still at the "fill" stage. A "refill" would be the second one.

She decided to charge me for the coffee. When I asked her how they'd know that my refill was the free refill when I came back she got really mad and asked me to leave.

Coffee places are a little too wiggly when it comes to what words mean. At Starbucks a small is a "tall", a medium is a "grande" and a large is a "vente". WTF? This is especially problematic when I really want a lot of coffee and order the "tall" thinking it will be big, when it really is rather pudgy. I don't know what the fuck "vente" means, but I thought it meant "vented" or something so I thought it was without a lid.

The worst is when I go somewhere and ask what size of drinks they have. I love when they say that they have medium, large and extra large. I'll always argue, "So you mean you have small, medium and large?"

They say, "No sir, we have medium, large and extra large".

This always throws me off because I think a medium is the one between the two other sizes. Silly me.