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Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego: “Shoving”

Written by Pat's Papers | Wednesday, 2 May 2012 6:24 AM

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Sharon. She writes: “Shovine? Shoving? Shaving? Close, but it’s Sharon.”

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Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego: “Fan’a”

Written by Pat's Papers | Friday, 27 April 2012 8:59 AM

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Farrah. She writes: “My name is Farrah, and so I’ve had some weird ones, but this one from today is by far my favorite: Fan’a. Why the apostrophe??”

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Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego: “Dough”

Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 26 March 2012 7:37 AM

A friend of mine sent me this Alter Ego via Twitter. Doug is a money manager. He writes: “I know we manage people’s dough, but I’m not sure the barista knew that. It’s Doug, silly.”

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Starbucks Alter Ego: Elexix

Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 5 March 2012 7:11 AM

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Alexis, who was so puzzled by her moniker that she sent us the entire back-and-forth she had with the barista, in hopes we might see where things got derailed.

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Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego: “Karen/Herry”

Written by Pat's Papers | Thursday, 23 February 2012 9:03 AM

We got an email from Pat’s Paper reader Kerry, who sent along a sample of what transpired at Starbucks that got her from a ‘Kerry’ to a ‘Karen’ to a ‘Herry.’

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Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego: “Maradeth”

Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 6 February 2012 9:22 AM

Pat’s Papers reader Meredith says, over the years, she’s gotten used to having her name misspelled—Meridith, Meredeth, Maredith, none of those faze her anymore. But when a barista re-named her after a metal band, well, she just had to send us a picture.

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Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego: “Hairly”

Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 30 January 2012 7:01 AM

We got an email from Hilary this morning, after she made a pit stop to get some coffee. She writes: “I stopped into a Starbucks en route to DC and despite giving and spelling my name (h-i-l-a-r-y), they called out and spelled Hairly.” Our advice? Don’t take it personally.

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Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego: “Amber”

Written by Pat's Papers | Wednesday, 11 January 2012 7:38 AM

Today we got an email from Catherine, detailing the scene that unfolded as she tried to get her morning coffee:

Conversation at Starbucks this morning:

Cashier: What’s your name?
Me: Catherine
Cashier: Amber?
Me: No, Catherine

Catherine adds, “What name showed up on my coffee? That’s right, Amber. At least I knew they meant me when they called it out.”

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Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego: “Megg”

Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 7 November 2011 9:05 AM

Served with today’s alter ego, we get a little insight into the mind of a barista from former Starbucks employee, Meg. She writes: “My name is Meg (easy enough to spell), but someone at Starbucks decided to write my name the cool way, apparently, and spelled it like this. As a former Starbucks employee, I kind of enjoy the creativity of the double-g. When the write-the-customer’s-name-on-their-cup initiative began, my coworkers and I decided to designate names for willing customers to avoid misspellings of our own. This led to us serving drinks to ‘Brad Pitt,’ ‘Bart Simpson’ and ‘Rainbow Brite,’ just to name a few.”

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Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego: “Jonnfer”

Written by Pat's Papers | Thursday, 27 October 2011 1:57 PM

Today’s Alter Ego comes from Jennifer, who was puzzled not only by the spelling of her name also by the emoticon her cup received: “No idea why I got the frownie face either….I was in a great mood and was very pleasant to barista.”

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