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What size is your travel mug?
So I was just buying myself a coffee at the now Starbucks at the Harriet Irving Library. I go there often when I want a coffee and I'm on campus because it's the closest place for me just a walk in the underground passage away. I also try to bring my own coffee mug, to save a tree and all that jazz. Well, that and the fact that I can't seem to drink a beverage with the lids they have there, the sippy-cup style ones, without dripping all over myself. The problem with bringing my own mug is that there's the question about what size it is, and the thing with my travel mug at least, is that it's pretty tall, and the outside is fairly wide, but the sides are pretty thick, so it looks like it holds more than it does. Soon after Starbucks opened up there (sometime last semester; the other coffee shop there used to have much smaller styrofoam cups), I tested to see how much a small there filled up mug. They're 12oz cups, and it basically filled the entire mug, albeit leaving a little more room for milk/cream than the paper cup. I'm pretty sure I showed the lady at the cash at the time, although I might've just done it showing myself how much it was. Regardless, whenever I do use my coffee mug, I leave the lid off and put it down on the counter so that they can see inside how high I filled it. Since determining how much a small is, whenever I get coffee using my mug, I always try to make sure to fill it up lower than what a full 12oz one did, regardless of whether I'm getting milk or not. Well, at first, I wasn't sure how much it should come to with tax for any size, and I'm pretty sure I'd been charged everything under the sun for it. I figured out eventually though that a small coffee with the 10 cent discount for my own resuable mug comes to $1.77. And today was the first time I noticed that I was getting charged more. I saw the 10 cent discount, and realized that she charged me for a larger size coffee. I said something like "Oh, I always get charged 1.77 for it." I dunno if I would've said anything anyways, (probably) but a definite factor in me saying anything was that I had only brought a toonie, and the total was 2.04$. She gave me a look but without any fuss lowered the total. I felt kinda bad then, and I offered to show her that the coffee in my mug only made up a small. She said 'no, that's fine', but still had a look on her face, and I think I said again that I don't mind showing her that the amount of coffee I got was only 12oz, and I said I wasn't getting any cream for it either. I didn't show her, and I didn't insist beyond that though because I wasn't sure if that'd make her more or less upset, and there was a line-up behind me. It's sad that because she got mildly peeved, and understandably so, it got me mildly peeved, and I didn't leave my usual tip of 23 cents.
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