When Your Starbucks Friend Moves Away



Even celebrities struggle with the darkness surrounding losing their #1 Starbucks friend.   Hang in there Ellen! 

 

 Few bloggers have tackled the difficult topic of "What to do When Your Starbucks Friend Moves Away."  I am currently trying to process the pain of my Starbucks friend, Kristen, moving to Baltimore.  It has been four months of lonely lattes.  Morose macchiatos.  And friendless frappuccinos. 

 

My therapist said journaling about the loss might nudge me towards making a new Starbucks friend.  Ha!  Everyone knows you are very lucky to have ONE Starbucks friend in your life, let alone two.  (You would think it would be easier, with a Starbucks on every corner.  But it isn't.)  Well.  I am a teacher and tend to do my assignments . . . so here is a peek at my journal.

 

 

A movie in which Julia and Meryl spend 90% percent of it screaming at each other is SO much better than a Grateful Dead cover band. 

 

A Starbucks friend will bring you a skinny vanilla latte when your boyfriend chooses to see Dark Star Orchestra instead of Julia Roberts' amazing new Southern Dramedy, Osage County.  Your Starbucks friend will always choose you and caffeine over tiresome outdoor concerts. 

 

A Starbucks friend is not so nutritionally obsessed that she doesn't see the obvious benefits of a weekly Starbucks lunch.  A pumpkin spice latte has fruit, (or is pumpkin a vegetable?  Seriously, it would be even better if pumpkin was a vegetable.) dairy, and the highly beneficial spice - cinnamon.  Cinnamon can lower blood sugar levels and reduce heart disease risk factors.  (This is especially helpful if your diet includes mutiple pumpkin spice lattes.)   Starbucks lunch days are the BEST.  It is heavenly to be free of your slightly smelly, insulated lunch bag and ubiquitous fat free Greek yogurt.   

 

 

 

 A Starbucks friend will act surprised when you give her a Starbucks gift card for Christmas.  She will even insist on breaking it in and treating you to an eggnog latte. 

 

Things aren't going so well in Baltimore either.  You are irreplaceable, Kristen!

A Starbucks friend knows baristas don't know how to spell names.  People can NEVER spell my name right, as it starts with a vowel and a sometimes vowel.  (Eydie - for those of you keeping track.) Apparently baristas can't spell "Kristen " either.  Is that with a "c" or a "k"?  "i-n" or "e-n"?  You Starbucks friend knows how to simplify things and lets you choose if you want to be "Sue" or "Kim."  At Starbucks I become Kim.  The only downfall is one over achieving barista who calls out - "Hi Kim!" whenever I walk in.  He could be onto me, as I often look to see who is behind me.

 

Hmmm.  Perhaps I need to find a new Starbucks to frequent along with a new Starbucks friend.

 

Eydie