The things that make me laugh, weep, and live.
Published on December 21, 2004 By Shulamite In Misc
I and a handful of friends of mine have Starbucks names. You know how they ask you for your name when you get the coffee? It's fun to have a great name that's not yours but that is not anyone else's and you use it each time you go... they know you as that name if you're a regular and it's just fun to have a secret Starbucks identity.

A friend of mine as been trying to get my brother to come up with a Starbucks name forever... he resists. My friend says mockingly, "But they'll KNOW who you ARE!"

I thought we were the only nerds who did this. I'm wrong. I was talking to a fellow teacher of mine the other day and mentioned having a Starbucks name. She said, "OH! Mine's..." and she proceeded to tell me hers and all her friends names. She says they use their porn names. (Your middle name plus the first street you ever lived on.) Her's is an awesome Latin sounding name. All my friends use hispanic names also... am I the only one without a cool Latino Starbucks name?

Mine rocks, don't get me wrong. I came up with it while in Santa Fe on a split second decision. I'm very happy with it. But I, who am so into Latino culture, should surely have a Latino Starbucks name. And yet I don't want to give away the one I have. Maybe it should be an alter ego and since I'm "changing my ethnicity" using a Latino name really wouldn't be an "alter ego," would it?

If anyone else uses a Starbucks name I'd be eager to hear about it and your philosophies on what this name represents. How did you come up with your Starbucks name? What is your porn name? That would be an interesting discussion as well!

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