On Saturday I went to 'Starbucks school'. Altogether 5 hours of obvious or basically useless information... don't get me wrong... work's been great so far and I'm grateful for it. The people who work at my store have been really cool... but this was a class with new employees from different stores from all over... not the people I work with day-to-day. (thank you Lord.)
The kind of geniuses were gathered who weren't previously aware that coffee beans grow on trees. Amazing people really.
As a 'get to know you' game in the beginning everyone wrote down their name, what store they're from, and if they could have coffee with someone famous or from history, who it would be.
I, of course, took this very seriously. Now what does having coffee entail? Well, to me, having coffee means a good-long heart-to-heart chat. And since on my heart are currently things such as justice in the world and studying governmental, law, and social systems, who would be more appropriate to have a heart-to-heart with than Plato?
So well... I wrote down Plato. But as I was the 2nd last to share, I first listened to everyone else talk about their fantasy coffee-meetings.
EVERY other person in the class chose a pop star, hip hop artist, or current actor. "Christina Aguilera because she's so fine." "Usher and his shirt would be off 'cause he's so sexy and I want his body."
I sat alone, feeling very homeschooled, as my moment of proving once and for all to be a complete geek loomed closer every minute. And well... it came. I said, "I'm Grace Newman... I work at the Danville Store on Hartz and if I could, I would have coffee with Plato." I stopped... I couldn't bring myself to explaining the depths of my heart to these people.
Everyone looked completely baffled... And then it happened...
The girl next to me said (in a skeptically confused manor), "What color?"
It took me a minute... what color Plato?... But, before too long, it dawned on me. Greek Philosophers might not come in different colors... but Play-Doh does.
I couldn't laugh. I couldn't say anything. I sank deeper in my chair. Someone across the room answered for me. "No I think she's into like some philosophy n'crap."
Thanks. I'm too busy losing all faith in the American public to explain myself.
In other news: Colorado is square. | 
