Do as I say ...

[ron_newman]

Seen this morning from the Elm Street sidewalk, inside the window of Starbucks:

A laptop bearing a bumper sticker reading:

Support Our Community
BUY LOCAL

Comments

[lonelyholiday.livejournal.com]

Oh come on now, he was buying his coffee at his LOCAL Starbucks instead of ordering online! (ha)

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

And I'm sure that was a locally-made laptop!

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Well, they got the plastic for it out of the Charles, does that count?

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Hypocrisy? In Starbucks?

[jenaflynn.livejournal.com]

Never. How dare you suggest such a thing?

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure the company is above reproach, but they really need to develop a classier, more elitist attitude if they want to keep out the riff-raff.

[kevin-church.livejournal.com]

Well, I've not stepped foot in Diesel since the bathroom stench made me puke one night about a year ago, so I do often pick up iced coffee at Starbucks. Doesn't hurt that I like the burned flavor in my iced beverages for some sick reason.

Keeping it local, though, Mr. Crepe has some of the best coffee I've had in a long time - they use Rao's, a local coffee company that does just about everything right.

[ifotismeni]

amen on all this. I moved to Davis after spending my last years in college in Amherst and really missed Rao's -- and then Mr. Crepe came along and life is so much better now :)

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

yep; huge fan of Mr. Crepe coffee. And I happily visit Starbucks vs. the Diesel - mostly to stop in and grab an iced tea. In terms of local, I'm much more about Sherman in Union Square.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Does Mr. Crepe's coffee have the burnt flavour? I would so love to find a place besides Dunkin' Donuts (love it or hate it) that doesn't taste burnt EVERY TIME I have it.

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

Maybe that issue has been addressed. I've been going there for a few months now and it's always been fine.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

i haven't gone to the diesel as frequently as i used to for two similar reasons:

1. sat down in the back and saw a guy kick off his flip-flops and start going at his bunions with an emery board.

2. decided to give them the benefit of the doubt, sat down in front the next time. woman at the table next to me started clipping her nails. i politely asked that she please go into the ladies' room to do that. she ignored me. i spoke with one of the baristas, who said "oh, ew!"...and proceeded to do nothing. woman still sits there, clipping her nails. since the staff clearly weren't going to do anything about this, i walked out.

i occasionally get takeout coffee from diesel, but it's not an enticing place for me to sit down, that's for sure.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

I only drink coffee grown in Massachusetts!

[ifotismeni]

ok, i figure this is a good time to ask: does diesel have wifi or not? i live a street away from it and keep forgetting to check -_-

[lemononmylips.livejournal.com]

you have to pay for it...i think it's like 4.95 an hour or something.

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

If you sit at the back, you can get "Best Practical" net which is open. Word is that it might eventually work at the front soon as well. Thanks Best Practical!

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

that amuses me. Although, I also have a Mac sticker on my old Gateway laptop.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

My mom used to have one of those on her ancient Toshiba laptop. :)

[turil.livejournal.com]

My husband took the "Window's Inside" sticker off a laptop he was installing Linux on and put the sticker on our toilet.

My dad had to ask what it meant...

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

Was the milk in his coffee skim? Maybe it said "Buy Lo Cal"

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Ha!! This made me *actually* laugh out loud!!!

"brown eggs are local eggs...."

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

buy local...... what?

[turil.livejournal.com]

Well, technically no coffee is local, so...

I buy herbal tea!

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

*mouth gapes open*

[ece-drihten.livejournal.com]

lolz