Coffee Tsunami
On Monday, Joshua and I picked up Shannon, who was in the Big D on her way to London, from Mark and Dawn’s house and took her to Starbucks for coffee. I had found out Monday morning about the earthquake and tsunami from Kausar’s blog and was telling Joshua about it, as he hadn’t heard about it yet.
When we got into Starbucks, I picked up a New York Times from the newsstand to show Joshua the map of how far the tsunami’s waves had reached. “It’s the biggest earthquake in years. See,” I said, pointing at the front-page map, “the center of the earthquake was here on the tip of Sumatra, and waves reached all over Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka.”
At that point, the woman behind the counter said, “We’re serving Sumatra as our coffee of the day today.”
OH. MY. GOD.
December 29th, 2004 at 11:06 pm
tell me about it.
the coffee and the paper being at the end of the bar has started many conversations.
it’s been interesting and sometimes disturbing to hear peoples reactions to the devastation.
some who wish they could do more and others that seem so apathetic. some who are just upset that they would put such graphic pictures on the front page.
“sorry the loss of 100,000 or so people has somehow spoiled your latte.”
i wish i could do more, but i suppose every little bit helps.
January 5th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Starbucks is donating 2$ per pound of sumatra sold to relief org’s.