Last Sunday morning I stopped at Starbucks for a grande-vanilla-latte-extra-hot. I was still a bit weary-eyed from too little sleep the night before. In the line just in front of me was someone I thought I knew. She had the same hair style and color and the same coat and height. From a quick glance it was definitely Haley. I said "Haley!" from behind her… but she didn’t turn around. So I did what any determined-extroverted-encourager would do in my situation: I took out my gloves and whacked her in the back. You know, just to say hello.
Well, this someone I thought was Haley turned around and looked at me with gaped astonishment. The only thing I could think to say was "Oops. You’re not Haley." This someone said, "You don’t know me… and yet you just whacked me on the back with your gloves." All I could say was, "Yes, that’s true. I’m a dolt."
No moral to this tale, friends. Just real life according to my deficiencies.
Yeah… Thanks, Adam. The staff at the Brentwood site certainly enjoyed the event. No free coffee though!
Just wanted to let you know, you are the type of customer I love watching in line when I am working, priceless…I would have given you a free coffee
No, you are not the only crazy-acting person in this world, Kelsey. But I don’t know about the effectiveness of this approach for the Hub. I’m not sure whacking people in the back really is a good strategy. 🙂 It’s better than whacking people in their rumps, I suppose… or maybe it isn’t. Hmmm.
LOL. Thats great ken!I thought I was the only person in the world that did crazy things like that!We should really consider trying this as a new approach to bring new people to “the Hub”.It may turn out to be quite effective!
It was hilarious! I couldn’t believe how well this psuedo-Haley responded! She was so calm and unfazed by the fact that this stranger had just hit her in the back. I’m just glad I did it before she got all hopped up on caffeine. She might not have been so calm 30 minutes later— she ordered some triple-shot-espresso concoction right after I whacked her.
That is way too funny, I must admit that I have done that once,twice… a few times.