This Week, On Starbucks Drama: Oct. 5 - Oct. 8

• The week started out with a bang, with Mr. Harley and the recipe book from Hell's Angels. I stand by my call that this was either an AA get-together or the world's worst blind date. Somebody wasn't happy to be there, although I'm not quite sure who. Don't miss Mr. Harley's recipe for marina sauce, which involves two cans of Hunt's Tomato Paste - and a grated carrot. Apparently, the secret IS in the sauce!
  
  
• There was the Comfy Chair War, which was a bloodless but bitter struggle, waged in silence for eons - or the span of time it took to suck down a iced venti mocha, which ever came first. I lost the battle, but not the war. Because people should know that purple IS the color of royalty.
   
• Possibly the best moment of the week involved a confused and possibly stupid white man peering over the register and screaming "IS ANYONE BACK THERE?" - because we all know that pensioners lose things with such frequency as they age - their hearing, their glasses, their eyesight - THEIR WITS!
  
  
• And finally, there was The Great Pastry Debate of 2009, wherein three old ladies matched wits with Super Cindy in a battle for truth, justice, the America way and frappuccino royale. I don't know about you, but I've never entertained any illusions that the pastries at Starbucks are actually "good" for you; they're only good in the sense that they're loaded with sugar and tons of lovely, unnecessary calories!