iced coffee and a little serendipity

it's still cold here, but it's supposed to warm up into the 40s on thursday! that's downright balmy compared to what it's been!

from the sounds of your replies to my question {about what the weather's been like for you } via the comments box on my post a couple days back, it has been unusually cold everywhere! even in the usually warm states like texas and florida {which is where my father-in-law lives... he told me in an e-mail yesterday that it was down to 24 degrees there over night! i didn't even know that was possible!}.

anyway, i thought i would post my starbucks shot for a couple of reasons. one... i like this pic. i had to snap it when i saw the icicles and snow on the storefront that made this sbux look like it was shivering and in need of a nice hot cup of coffee... thus the play on words for the title of this post. : )

secondly... something kind of serendipitous {or maybe just coincidental } happened to me today. on my lunch break, i went to the starbucks that is just down the street from where i work {not the one pictured here }. i ordered my tall {or small in layman's terms } soy green tea latte and grabbed a tomato, basil, mozzarella sandwich.

well, the girl who took my order grabbed a medium cup instead of a small, and then the barista caught the error, but went ahead and made my drink as a medium anyway, because the cashier head already written "GTL" on the medium cup.

however, they still only charged me for a small. then as i was waiting for my drink, they asked if i wanted a free non-fat vanilla latte. this is a coffee drink, so i knew i would not want it for me, as one of my new year's resolutions is to quit drinking coffee. but i thought maybe someone at work would like it. the drink had already been made, but the drive-through customer who ordered it only had a fifty, and they could not break it, so he kept driving. {why they gave it to me for free, but not him, i don't understand. perhaps they would have given it to him, but he left before they could offer it.} anyway, it was already made and none of the employees wanted it, so it went to me. i was happy to bring back a free drink to someone in the office that might enjoy it. by this point, i was feeling like it was my lucky day.

okay... 'tis kind of a cool thing when told by itself. but there's more. as i sat at the counter eating my sandwich, the ray charles version of georgia came on over the speakers. now you have to know, i get a smile whenever i hear that song, where ever i am, no matter who is singing it {for the obvious reason being that it is my name }. plus, that song has a lot of sentimental value to me. but today, i smiled even more broadly than usual.

you see, the very same thing happened to me about a month ago. well, almost the same thing... on my way to work, i saw my friend through the window at the starbucks near my house. so i went in to say hello. as i was standing there talking to her and her husband, michael buble's version of georgia started to play. she was the one who first noticed, so she pointed it out and i smiled with delight. later that day -- at the starbucks that i was at today -- i ordered a tall soy green tea latte. the barista heard me order, so he began to make my drink. but the cashier did not know, so he drew up a cup for my order and gave it to the barista, who thought it was an additional latte for a different customer. when they realized there was only one customer, but there were two lattes made, they gave them both to me... for the price of one!

so that's the serendipitous part. hmmmm... i think that next time i hear the song georgia in a starbucks, i should go buy a lottery ticket... what do you think?