PassiveAggressiveNotes.com » Starbucks http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Yeah…take that, Starbucks! [sob] http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/09/19/so-much-for-bucking-the-trend/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/09/19/so-much-for-bucking-the-trend/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:06:44 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=19408 While on vacation in New York City, Christine came across this sad little sign in the window of an indie cafe in the East Village.

Luckily for the shop’s current/future proprietors, this year’s G20 summit is in France. So don’t worry, passively-anti-corporate New Yorkers: soon you’ll almost certainly be free to fret over your Frappuccinos without fear of finding shards of broken glass in your whipped cream.

After 10 years at this location we have lost our lease and are being forced to close this store. We are heartbroken but not broken. It is our understanding that our store has been leased to Starbucks.

related: Remember that the cheese loved you more than you loved it!

related: Raging against the little guy

]]> http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/09/19/so-much-for-bucking-the-trend/feed/ 68 Raging against the little guy http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/10/20/raging-against-the-little-guy/ http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/10/20/raging-against-the-little-guy/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:26:48 +0000 Kerry http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/?p=11714 Kellye from Huntsville, Alabama spotted these notes posted on boarded-up diner during last month’s G20 summit in Pittsburgh.

Explains Kellye: “The broken windows were caused by a few rowdy anarchists/drunk college kids from Oakland who apparently missed the mark in their defiance of the man. Since the vandals represented only a very small cross-section of protesters involved, other more local-friendly civil disobedients apparently saw fit to apologize for in their stead and offer their respectful patronage.”

related: silent protest

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CREAMER IS NOT FOR THIS PURPOSE

related: Be curtius

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1. From Portland, Oregon…

FYI - a recent study at Harvard Medical School linked a rare, disfiguring and painful form of genital herpes to leaving dirty dishes in the sink. Be careful out there.

2. From Williamsburg, Virginia…

Stealing ice cream gives you herpes. :)

3. From Miami, Florida…

Surgeon's General Warning Entering Starbucks now greatly increases your chance of contracting herpes.

related: Come get some
extra credit: Herpes: it’s got New York by the balls [nymag.com]

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(Add one pump “disgruntled English Lit Ph.d.s” + one pump “functional illiterates”; shake well.)

Please do not put towels in unless they are ring out 1st thanks

related: An extra bold request

extra credit: Starbucks gossip

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Notes Jessica: “I wonder if all that special barista training they had recently included anything about dictating the topic of conversations allowed?”

Customers, Please try to not talk about the Celtics game. I am recording it and watching it when I get home tonight. I would really prefer to not know the outcome ahead of time. Thanks.

related: Our customers are always right…except when they’re wrong

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