Starbugs
Starbugs
It was Friday, May 11th, a nice evening that my good old friend and I had
just finished our dinner. It was only 10:30 p.m., the night was too young to
end. We both still had a lot to catch up since we had not seen each other for 8
months. We decided to drive to my usual hangout coffee place, Starbucks
on Convent road.
After we finished our coffees around midnight on , we headed for our car
in the parking lot behind the shop. While we were approaching our car, there
is one rather attractive Caucasian lady who had a big smile on her face
walked straight to me and asked, "who are you? Who do you think you are?" For a
split moment, I was puzzled and tried to figure whether I know this lady.
I told her, "we are customers at Starbucks, why?"
With her impolite tone of voice, she then proceeded closer to me and said,
"that parking space is only for the owner of Starbucks. My husband is the
owner of Starbucks Thailand. I could have had your car tolled to the
police station." She spoke so loud as if we both were deaf!
I said, "sorry, I didn't know that. There is no signage that say so. Next
time you should put a signage there. By the way, Im a regular customer
here and this is not the first time I park here at this spot."
With her arrogant manner, she proceeded closer to me, and start to point
finger at my face and said, "sorry is not enough and there will be no more
next time for you!
If our apology is not sufficient, we didnt know what the hell this woman
wanted from us! At that point in time, we both were stunned to hear that
she who claimed that her husband own Starbucks, did not want usher
customers--- back here! I and my friend then told her, "Ok, then we won't come back
here again."
The lady said," Good, don't ever come back, we don't want people like you
back here. Starbucks is not for you Asian anyway!" Then she turn around and
walked back to her husband, the owner of Starbucks Thailand, who witnessed the
whole situation and waited a few feet away next to their Silver Volvo.
We drove away feeling so furious and disappointed!
Ladies and Gentlemen, since Starbucks is not for Asian like us, lets make
her wish comes true. Lets make sure that will no longer have us as their
customers.
S. Boonnak
Sasin MM 1992
Marketing Manager
SWT Corporation Public Co., Limited
90 Moo 5,
Chaengwattana Road,
Klong Gluar, Pak-kred, Nonthaburi 11120
Thailand
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