Do you want it to take away?

Barista: Do you want it to take away…?

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Customer: Did you finish your sentence? What do I want it to take away? My pain? Is that what you are asking me?

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Barista: Or you could drink it in…

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Customer: Drink it in what? A decompression chamber? Why is nothing straightforward anymore? And that, my lad,

was a rhetorical question, so don’t even think about trying to answer it. I have. And look where it has got me.

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Barista: Where’s that?

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Customer: Here.

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Barista: Oh.