‘Tis the Season
With our annual Choliday Party* tonight, Melissa needed a little caffeine to get her going this morning — which meant a trip to Starbucks for an iced chai latte. Fresh snow last night, so I volunteered to make the trip down icy Monument Hill in the Wrangler. I’m still not allowed to have coffee, but I’ll cheat with the occasional half-caff.
Got to the front of the drive-up line, and the nice kid behind the counter told me the person in the car ahead had paid for my order. So I paid for the car behind me. With any luck, people are still in line down there, spreading a little Christmas spirit.
And let me tell you, there’s nothing like a little forbidden caffeine to help with the holiday cheer.
*Chanukah + Christmas = Choliday. Put a little phlegm into the CH and you’ve got it.
That warm spirit of the season didn
Chappy Cholidays, Steve. Chope it’s Chealthy!
Best to you and yours. Seriously, it’s been great having you back in the saddle (so to speak) and I’m looking forward to a healthy and productive new year from you.
Did you hear about this, Stephen?
One woman’s kindness to a fellow Starbucks patron resulted in more than a thousand others spreading the holiday-season generosity in this northwest Washington town.
[O]n Wednesday, her good deed set off a chain of 1,013 customers paying for the next person’s drink.
That last line should be in italics too. I’ve given up previewing here, because the alien robots always steal my post.
Sorry! Marketing scam alert…
http://storywelch.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/yes-virginia-it-was-a-pr-stunt/
Witnessed with my own eyes: Eating Christmas dinner at the local Chinese place (tradition long before “A Christmas Story”) and there was a soldier, an Army Ranger from what I could see of his uniform, eating with another guy. Shortly after we sat down, they wrapped their meal up. I was about to suggest to mu hubby that we spring for their check, when someone else in the restaurant beat me to it. We did get our chance at the ice cream place. Overall, it has been a wonderful holiday.