Show Me

I’m not from Missouri, the show me State, but I don’t take things at face value, I dig deep and have to prove to myself.

Thus it was that when, in early October, I’d posted the neighborhood Starbucks was up/running but, due to the cost of a Venti ($4.75 plus $1 tip and quarter change/$6.00), it would be a rare treat, a reader led me to a site that demonstrated a $3.95 plus $1 tip/$5.00 Tall was the same amount of coffee as the more expensive Venti.

My next trip to Starbucks was on the 22nd, where I purchased a Tall and kept the cup.

Then, yesterday, I purchased a Venti and, using water, ran an experiment to see if the Tall was indeed the same as a Venti.

Tall comes up short in filling a Venti cup.

I don’t know how the guy on that site managed to trick my eyes into seeing otherwise but just goes to show, like they say … one can’t believe everything they see on the internet, not even if we see with our own eyes. Have to prove it for oneself.

Like any good scientist, I had to verify the initial findings, so I poured a Venti into my coffee cup.

Actually, filled to the brim with a tiny bit left in the Venti cup.

Next, I poured a Tall, which the guy demonstrated was the same as a Venti into my coffee cup.

Nope. Not happening.

I’ll stick to the occasional $6 cup.

I also thought my eyes were deceiving me when, headed for the dumpster two afternoons ago, I saw something strange poking out from behind the dumpster wall ……

A Nazi car?

Nope ……… Can’t be ……… Not in my backyard.

Oh, but it was.

Word got around pretty quick, and it was tracked to a visitor.

The driver was visiting the neighbor that moved into the vacant unit upstairs across from Lu’s unit.

A little history on that unit: The previous resident was Laura, one of Dream Lover’s old girlfriends, known on the blog as Boebert because she talked during bingo, couldn’t be quiet …… not unlike Lauren Boebert at the Beetlejuice show.

The unit is one building over from me, upstairs across the quad from Lu.

Now that Lu is with Dream Lover, I imagine she was previously jealous … glancing up, seeing Dream Lover climbing the stairs to Boebert.

But at least Dream Lover waited until Boebert moved out (due to cigarette smoke continuing to seep into her unit from those violating the no smoking rule) before he hooked up with Lu, otherwise Boebert would now be looking down, seeing Dream Lover going in/out of Lu’s unit.

As far as I know, I’ve not seen the person that moved into Boebert’s old unit, don't know anything about him or her or them, but I’ll have to snoop around, fix that and, hopefully, one day catch a glimpse of the driver of the Nazi car.

Speaking of history on units ……… remember the guy that moved into the cursed unit — upstairs across the quad from me ……… "Cursed" because bad things happened to everyone who has lived in that unit since I moved in 2012.

Nice guy in the unit now, friendly to me, but not sociable around here (let’s call him The Geek, because he’s kinda dorky) has managed to break the curse, is going strong, will outlast and outlive yours truly.