So, I went to this new cafe that I’ve never been to before. It’s like a new cafe. And it was really nice inside, and I was like, “Hey, this place is nice and cozy.” And they had a list, they had a menu, you know, on the wall. And there was a list of lattes, and they all had cute little names. And I decided I wanted to get the one called the Buddha. And so I said to the barista, “I would like a small Buddha.” And I saw her type it. She took a really long time. She’s like typing a lot of things in, and she finally typed in my order and it popped up on the screen. And it said, “Green Buddha.” And I was, like Green Buddha? I didn’t say that. So I looked at the menu again and way off to the other side of the menu there was a thing that says matcha, and one of the things you could get was the Green Buddha, and it had matcha in it. And I said “No, no, sorry I didn’t want the Green Buddha. I just want the regular Buddha.” And then she was like, “Oh.” And I was like “Yeah, I don’t want — I don’t want any matcha,” and she’s like, “Oh.” And so, then she starts typing in some more stuff, and I see it change from Green Buddha to regular Buddha. So I thought she understood what I meant. So I paid for it.
And then she hands it to me, and it’s matcha! And I’m like, “I’m sorry. I, I said I didn’t want matcha,” and she’s like, “Well, you said you wanted the Buddha.” And I’m like, “Yeah, but you typed in Green Buddha, which is the matcha, and I said no, and then you changed it to the regular Buddha, and that’s what I got.” And I said that, and she was like, “Well, the Buddha has matcha in it.” I’m like, “No, look at the menu. It’s listed under lattes. It’s a latte.” And she’s like, “Well, that’s what it is.” I was like, “But it doesn’t say it has matcha in it! It’s listed under lattes, which in my definition is espresso. Like it’s made with espresso, not with matcha.” And she was like, “Well, um, the Buddha has matcha in it.” And I’m like, “It does not say that.” I’m like, “Okay, then what is the Green Buddha?” And she’s like, “It’s a matcha latte.” I’m like, “Okay, so you have the matcha latte listed under matchas. But when I ordered the Buddha latte, it’s a matcha? It’s the same thing?” And then she’s like, “Do you want me to remake it?” And I was like, “No. I’m — I don’t care. I’ll just take it.”
And I was so frustrated with her because she just was arguing with me and not like seeing the error that she made. And after I had said I didn’t want matcha, she gave it to me anyway, and then tried to tell me that like, what was listed on the menu was, was a matcha when it was absolutely not. It was listed under lattes. And I was like, “A latte has espresso in it, not matcha. And it does not say on your menu that the Buddha, under the latte, like, column, it does not say matcha!” And she was just like, “Well, do you want me to remake it?” And by then, people in the cafe, everybody had like stopped talking, and they were all looking at me. And there was like these teenage girls and they were like giggling and rolling their eyes, and I was like, “I’ll just take it. I don’t care.” And then I like walked out, like, kind of angry, and gave it to my husband, and I was like, “I don’t want this. It’s not a drink — it’s like not the drink I wanted.”