#teaspoons

[great-and-small]

creatures

[nigocry]

🥄ok hear me out. whenever carmy gets irrationally irritated about running out of teaspoons, to me it feels like it’s about more than just the teaspoons. where i’m from, “giving someone a teaspoon” is an expression that basically means making a situation easier. like when you “give someone a teaspoon” (not literally), you’re trying to make their life a little less complicated. sometimes it’s even a way of asking for help, or asking someone to cut you some slack. in other contexts it can mean wanting things the easy way, like “come on, give me a teaspoon, just do this for me.” it can also mean giving someone a chance. it can also mean forgiving a mistake or letting something slide. it really depends on the context. (i couldn’t find anything about it in english btw).

i don’t fully trust my understanding of english idioms, so can someone confirm for me that this is a universal expression? lol

but with that in mind, the bear constantly running out of teaspoons (and napkins haha) makes me think about how badly they all need help, chances, a little slack for once in the middle of all that kitchen chaos....

[thatsbelievable]

[the-pink-hacker]

We should take a note from metric units and only have one unit per measurement. For instance we currently have teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, fluid ounces, pints, quarts, and gallons. I propose a much better system of teaspoons, decateaspoons, hectoteaspoons, and kiloteaspoons.

If that sounds too simple then we can also have tablespoons, decatablespoons, hectotablespoons, and kilotablespoons.

1 kiloteaspoon = 1 000 teaspoons = ⅓ kilotablespoon = 333 ⅓ tablespoons

There's another way to take this though. Instead of prefixing the teaspoon or tablespoon, we can prefix the spoon. So you could have teaspoons, eggspoons, coffespoons, dessertspoon, tablespoons, and ladlespoons. I don't think you guys are ready for that one though.

[great-room]

@glacierclear isn't on here themself anymore (moved to twitter after "show nuts" became "no nuts") so with reblogs not an option it seems I shall have to resort to a sourced repost

have to say that the flirting scene is especially enamoring. the moment of bashful, apologetic kindness when she thinks she came on too strong... and then when she gets the greenlight that it wasn't unwelcome... taking the hint and gunning it 🥴

source tweets:

new character post

self-introduction

woof form

garden tour

flirting with someone shy

[thebluestrokes]

Teaspoons - are very important business!

[personalityisnice]

Dear Starbucks Patrons,

To the woman whose order I took today:

You asked for a grande coffee with exactly a tablespoon's worth of non-fat milk. We do not have tablespoons at our location. Perhaps there are some that provide silverware that do, but we do not and we don't. Getting irate, you said that that was the only way you could drink it.

That's not our problem.

You pointed out the plastic spoons behind me that we give out with yogurt and oatmeal. I pointed out those were teaspoons, but I offered to get you non-fat milk on the side in a short cup with one of said plastic teaspoons. You accepted.

When I gave it to you, you started putting the milk in your coffee in front of the register. I informed you that Starbucks didn't want you doing that because of Covid. You said you were done. I said okay, just so you know for next time. You said you wouldn't be back again.

Couple things:

1.) Thank God.

2.) I'm not sure I can trust this is the case anyway, as I remembered after you left that you'd made the same request of a coworker, no less rudely or irritatedly, and you still came back.

3.) This is still something worth knowing when patronizing other locations. (As somehow I doubt this interaction is going to cause you to forsake Starbucks altogether.)

Enjoy your coffee. You will not be missed.

Sincerely, a Starbucks Employee.

[meliflooes]

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