Defend the indefensible: People who pour coffee in the trash

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Dear Abbey,

If you order a coffee and want milk in it, please ask to leave room for milk. Pouring coffee in the trash can after the fact is shitty.

Signed,
Crying Over Spilt Milk

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
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― Half Moon Empty Sports Bag (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Once I knew this guy named Yuri who, during a service rush, took a piss in a garbage can in Arby's kitchen.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Did you all call him Yurine after that?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Dear Arbey:

Pissing in the trash can after the fact is pissy.

Signed,
Crying Over Split Gut

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

yurine, fnaar

why did he do it in the kitchen bin, why not go to the toilet?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I do ask for leave room for cream, and I am left with approximately 3 millimeters of room. When I saw with room, I mean it.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I once let a guy I was managing at Lil' Caeser's Pizza spit his tobacco in a customer's pizza.

The cricumstances leading up to that point were absurd and abusive. This guy deserved worse.

I was also rather young at the time and my IQ is pretty low.

Surprisingly, the customer never called to complain.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

better to pour it in the garbage than accidentally spill on the floor, potentially causing a broken coccyx.

― john in chicago (frankE), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

DON'T SPILL THE BLACK GOLD, EFFENDI
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― Half Moon Empty Sports Bag (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

i do this all the time! sorry ilx.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

i do this all the time! sorry ilx.

Piss in trash cans?!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

As a former barrista, I used to hate these fuckers. But, as a FORMER barrista and CURRENT coffee drinker, I think it comes down to proper training for the person serving the drink.

1. The barrista is going to be the one who catches the brunt of this - they have to empty the coffee-filled trash can at some point during their shift.
2. The barrista is the person who pours the coffee into the cup.
3. The barrista is in the position to ask "Would you like room for cream?" and therby lessening the number of coffee pourers.

At the end of the day, I think that, if the barrista is improperly trained OR the store does not have adequate drainage facilities, the consumer is faced with steaming hot coffee, others behind them who need to get to the sugar, cream, etc., and no desire to perilously dance with an overfull cup of coffee on the way to work with their snappy new tie/shirt combo in mortal danger.

So, either ask if they need the room in the cup, provide them with a drain in which to pour excess, or suffer the consequences.

DEFENDED, BITCHES!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

i do this all the time! sorry ilx.

Spit your tobacco in other's pizzas?!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Actually Yuri became The Yurinator, and he went in the trash bin because he was in a hurry and it was right there.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

i do this all the time! sorry ilx.

Post dumb R. Crumb cartoons?!

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm not convinced this is even an issue in the UK. Pouring any kind of liquid into a bin seems anathema. Surely here we just meekly drink whatever we're given, then moan about it after? But then, I am not a big coffee drinker.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

i do this all the time! sorry ilx.

Piss in trash cans?!

no, pour coffee in the trash. i piss exclusively in ice cube trays.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

no, pour coffee in the trash. i piss exclusively in ice cube trays

Do you wear a blue uniform? Ice Cube will swarm on any motherfucker in a blue uniform.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Wot, the curtains?

― Half Moon Empty Sports Bag (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Is it just me, or is it only barristas that use the word barrista? To me, it's just the hot chick from the coffee shop.

― andy --, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh no, a messy trash can!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

why don't they have little sinks for this?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

(and by "they" I mean Starbucks because this is the ONLY place I've ever seen anyone do this)

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Because there's a trash can right there?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

too much liquid makes the bag burst. it's extremely unpleasant.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

This may have been the second time ever that I have used barrista. It was for the sake of efficiency more than anything else. It would have taken more key strokes to say "dude who served coffee" or even "coffee bitch."

I have never been accused of either a) being a cute chick or b) working at Starbucks.

As for the liquid filled bag, it can go anywhere from bursting to becoming like a water balloon and sending arcing sprays of rancid trash bag coffee splurge all over the place when pierced. Drains are for liquids, trash bags are for trash.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Big Loud Mountain Ape OTM. just a slop bucket works in liu of an actual drain.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Surely all the rubbish bags in the bin have holes in the bottom anyway? I know nearly all the ones I come across do.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

why don't they have little sinks for this?

Some places do have grates, like bars have under beer taps, in the cream/sugar area. Peet's I think, and maybe even some Starbucks?

― already disheveled hair projection (wetmink), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

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