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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Some time ago, I worked at Starbucks with my pal Mike Walker (from Royal Ruckus). In between hating Frappuccino drinkers, we had great fun. Fewer people had more inside jokes than Mike and me.
For awhile, we had a very uptight assistant manager. At one point, he mandated that we only give coffee cup sleeves for drinks for which the handbook required sleeves. In other words, unless requested specifically by the customer, we were only allowed to put sleeves on drip coffee, tea, espresso, and Americanos. The trouble is that pretty much everyone expects a cup sleeve these days.
So to add to the fun, when people would ask for a sleeve, if they couldn’t think of the name of it, we wouldn’t supply it. We would let them find a word to express what they needed. Hand motions wouldn’t suffice either. We played dumb.
Here is the customer made list we gradually compiled; and folks, we aren’t making this up:
- Cup Gripper
- Protector
- Java Jacket
- Bra
- Cuff
- Sleeve (you got it, pal!)
- Wooden Thing
- Thingies
- Coaster
- Cozy
- Handle
- Hand Thing
- Envelope
- Slip
- Huggy
- Cover
- Jacket
- Holder
- Card
- Skirt
- Collar
- Hanky
- Lil Deals
- Paper Thingy
- Sweater
- Holder on the Sides
- Carton
- Brown Thing
- Hot Thing
- Cool Thing
- Coffee Condom
- Coffee Clutch
- Liner
- Sock
- Warmer
- Hand Guard
- Thermo-Protecting Cuff
- Insulator
- Hand Job
- Caddies
- Slipper
- Circle
- Band
- Jobby
- Sheets
- Hand Saver
- Styrofoam
