Eats, Shoots Her Mouth Off, and Leaves: Frumpy English Prof Throws Fit At NYC Starbucks
Starbucks has been called a lot of things over the years, but leave it to an English professor from Manhattan to dub the coffee titans “Orwellian language fascists”. She also compared them unfavorably to Burger King and called her barista “an asshole”. More from the always-ridiculous New York Post:
"I" Before "E" Except After "Feisty"
Lynne Rosenthal, a college English professor from Manhattan, said three cops forcibly ejected her from an Upper West Side Starbucks yesterday morning after she got into a dispute with a counterperson — make that barista — for refusing to place her order by the coffee chain’s rules.
Rosenthal, who is in her early 60s, asked for a toasted multigrain bagel — and became enraged when the barista at the franchise, on Columbus Avenue at 86th Street, followed up by inquiring, “Do you want butter or cheese?”
“I just wanted a multigrain bagel,” Rosenthal told The Post. “I refused to say ‘without butter or cheese.’ When you go to Burger King, you don’t have to list the six things you don’t want.
“Linguistically, it’s stupid, and I’m a stickler for correct English.”
It sounds like this lady was full-on, three cop ejection, Columbia PhD out of control. Much sympathy to the barista involved.
