Rosa Parks Style

I am currently boycotting the following places:

Starbucks - This one has been long in-running and unless its a dire emergency that I need a boost and nothing else is around, I will get a chai or drip. I ban starbucks because of many reasons. First and foremost, they do not even prepare espressos anymore. They have a machine do it for them. I love electronics and all that jazz, but coffee needs to be made properly, and to charge customers the same or more than other places that manually pull espresso shots is ludicrous. Plus, their espresso and their lattes taste like filthy garbage when compared to many of the other great local cafes and baristas around the area. Open your taste buds people, and try something new. Also, their CEO just sold the Sonics to Oklahoma City, and that's even more reason to boo them down. They do get great kudos for running a massively successful business though.

Ivar's Lake Union - What once was one of my favorite happy hour spots is now still alright but just not the same. Maybe it's the fact that I went here too much, but it's also that their service has been pretty lacking lately, and that their menu isn't so pleasing to the non-seafood lover, and that their prices went up with it. I'm on a temporary hiatus from this spot along with another friend, but we'll see how long it'll last.

The Great American Casino - Some local place in Tukwila one of my co-worker's loves way too much. The food stinks. I'd rather, well, I'd rather go to McDonald's. Who cares if the food is cheap if it's sickening.

Fry's - I am not totally boycotting this place, cause I'll go in here when I need to, but I will always look to other places first prior to going here. It's far from home, yet close to where I work. Still, the service is by far the most wretched thing in all of the retail customer sector. The cheesy dress shirt and ties are hilarious because the people who work there look so corny in them, and they don't know how to talk to people in a professional-like manner. It's scary. One time, a guy told my friend that if he bought this certain type of RAM for his computer, his motherboard would "blow up". Seriously! Either he's pushing way too hard to get the sale on the more pricey hardware or he's a complete moron. Word. You never buy a thing at Fry's and expect to get out of there in 10 minutes, I kid you not.