Crush.
whyimnotinvideogames asked:
How did you become a Barista? Are there any interesting horror stories from your first attempts to make "Five Dollars worth of Heaven"?
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magesmagesmages asked:
Hey Gare-Bear! I wanted to know, before Sebastian did you have any big crushes? If so, who were they and what were they like?
I lumped these two together because I feel like they're linked.
Okay -- let's be totally real about my sad-sack life... before Seb I had nothing BUT crushes. I had crushes on EVERYBODY. One time, in the fourth grade, I had a crush on a girl. For like a day. I found out recently, through very strange happenstance, that the girl grew up to be Bela's friend Aveline. So. I mean, as an adult I'm pretty sure Aveline's not my type.
Pretty sure.
In high school, there was a guy on the soccer team that I was embarrassingly in love with. He was in a band (it was a hopeless situation) and I'd go to the local events that he'd play at (like grocery store grand openings and one bar mitzvah) and kind of skulk in the back. He talked to me one time. He asked me what I thought was going to be on a Kafka oriented mid-term in English class and I said, "bugs and stuff."
In college I needed a job. And there was a coffee shop on campus and they were desperate for an employee willing to do a lot of the grunt work and I was that grunt. Tom worked there. And he was super smart and super talented and super my type and an amazing barista. And I loved coffee and was like, hey, teach me your ways and he did. And I was not a quick learner.
Interesting training stories? I made things that were truly, wildly, not fit for human consumption. I had this idea for a garlic mocha.
I'm just going to let that sink in. Garlic. Mocha.
But, uh, yeah. Tom? I was like... okay, I was dating Seb at the time but, now that I'm older and wiser and have distance and shit... I can seriously tell you that I had the hugest most painful crush of my early life on Tom the Barista. Sigh.