Mood:
irritatedTopic: A Hello to Arms
People are...
Well, people... people are...
...yeesh...
The preface for this post is that, personally, one of Shane's most-favorite things in the world is caffiene, and one of my most-favoritest beverages of the caffinated variety is a simple little drink I call a Quint (fancy that, huh?).
It's a latte, btw, and can you guess how many shots of espresso go in it?
Huh? Anyone?
Yeah, a five-shot espresso latte. Delicious (and yes: even the chain-smokers sitting outside of Starbucks are staring at my and saying that I should cut down...).
Why do I share this nugget of goodness, you ask? One reason:
Nobody on the whole f**king planet seems to understand what the hell the word QUINTUPLE means!
Here's a tip for all our coffehouse friends: a "quintuple" is not four... a "quintuple" is not six (and if drank it with six, I'd probably just call it a "six shooter", or maybe even a "sex-presso" haha...)
I don't think it's too much to ask for people to know the basic tuple series for single digit numbers. This isn't friggin' esoteric information or minutae: I'm not asking you to laugh at any jokes about Schrodinger's Cat or obscure 80's cartoons (and lord knows I do barely well enough keeping the basic information down myself, but still... these are simple numerical placards, for God's sake!)
Next time I go for a beverage I might have to order like this:
Me: "gimme a latte with as many shots in it as that poor woman on the news recently who took fertility drugs to get pregnant and ended up with way too many kids than she can support but got her picture in the paper anyway."
Coffee-guy: "Oh: then you want quintuplets!"
...sigh...
