Starbucks and Men – makes sense!
So let me start by saying that I dont typically buy $5 coffee at Starbucks but since I won a gift card there, I used it…of course. As I pulled up to place my order I’m looking at the menu and I’m already overwelmed (Raleigh Starbucks have drive-throughs, but you will wait 17 minutes to get your coffee). I try to order a latte….”would you like caramel latte, a mocha latte…an I’m confusing you already latte?” Yes please, I answer.. put some caramel in it….”would you like sugar free”…I reply sure…”is that a grande, vente, super -size me, shorty,”….whatever…grande is fine! “Would you like that hot or cold”…..geez…hot…fine..” I just want some damn coffee..all the questions are really starting to stress me out. So after nearly a ten minute question and answer session about whether I wanted a “half skim, sugar free, caramel, mocha lotta choco latte” I had no clue what the hell I was actually going to get. So that naturally sparked a thought about men….or un-naturally!
I started to think about men in the same way. Women think they have this particular “type” of guy that they want to marry. Mine just so happens to be a tall, dark, handsome, successful, possible stockbroker because I am financially illiterate, wears suits and ties to work, cooks and cleans, makes me laugh, mind being domestic….worships the ground I walk on and laughs at my jokes, kind of guy…..and I digress….but either way its a lot like ordering a coffee at Starbucks. You want all this extra topping added and somehow you go from a black coffee to a grande, sugar free, skim, half foam…blah blah but we bypass the reason you showed up there in the first place…to get a hot cup of coffee to warm you up or wake you up one. I know we all get too caught up in the what we think we need from a man that we forget about how we just want them to make us feel…warm inside and awake to life!
So, the next time you start building your perfect man in your mind…stop and remind yourself of what truely matters.
So let me start by saying that I dont typically buy $5 coffee at Starbucks but since I won a gift card there, I used it…of course. As I pulled up to place my order I’m looking at the menu and I’m already overwelmed (Raleigh Starbucks have drive-throughs, but you will wait 17 minutes to get your coffee). I try to order a latte….”would you like caramel latte, a mocha latte…an I’m confusing you already latte?” Yes please, I answer.. put some caramel in it….”would you like sugar free”…I reply sure…”is that a grande, vente, super -size me, shorty,”….whatever…grande is fine! “Would you like that hot or cold”…..geez…hot…fine..” I just want some damn coffee..all the questions are really starting to stress me out. So after nearly a ten minute question and answer session about whether I wanted a “half skim, sugar free, caramel, mocha lotta choco latte” I had no clue what the hell I was actually going to get. So that naturally sparked a thought about men….or un-naturally!
I started to think about men in the same way. Women think they have this particular “type” of guy that they want to marry. Mine just so happens to be a tall, dark, handsome, successful, possible stockbroker because I am financially illiterate, wears suits and ties to work, cooks and cleans, makes me laugh, mind being domestic….worships the ground I walk on and laughs at my jokes, kind of guy…..and I digress….but either way its a lot like ordering a coffee at Starbucks. You want all this extra topping added and somehow you go from a black coffee to a grande, sugar free, skim, half foam…blah blah but we bypass the reason you showed up there in the first place…to get a hot cup of coffee to warm you up or wake you up one. I know we all get too caught up in the what we think we need from a man that we forget about how we just want them to make us feel…warm inside and awake to life!
So, the next time you start building your perfect man in your mind…stop and remind yourself of what truely matters.
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