South Carolina funeral home teams up with Starbucks to bring grieving customers and anyone else with money a bit of comfort.
Let me guess . . . Coffee to die for?
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Playing with my Poll Daddy today, which sounds totally wrong, but I didn’t name it. The point is that I have a few questions for you. Since it’s election season, I wrote them in the style of campaign writers.
All the best to all of you for a week with more coffee than funerals.
Piper Bayard–The Pale Writer of the Apocalypse
Piper Bayard 
We sell Starbucks at my church congregation but it’s a part of a little meeting area.
Well, I’m guessing not too many members of the congregation are dead, either. 🙂
I’ve seen coffee shops in churches…but a funeral home? I hope they don’t multitask and warm their premade sandwiches in the crematorium ovens.
And that gummybear song is rather catchy! LOL
Oooo! Good one! And as for the Gummy Bear Song, my daughter played it once for me back when she was in 7th grade. It is still stuck in my head.
Thanks for the mention.
That coffee shop story just seems like a sitcom waiting to be written?
Funny post as usual!
LOL. It does have some serious TV potential, doesn’t it? Glad you enjoyed it, Phil.
Frappucino and a skinny blueberry muffin to go with your deluxe burial package? I can see it catching on.
Strangely enough, so can I. You know those little silver vial pendants you can have your deceased’s ashes put in? Perhaps they need one shaped like a Starbuck’s cup. Silver, gold, or a nice coffee-colored bronze.
Ha! They’d be ideal as funeral favours. I think you’ve uncovered a niche in after-life marketing.
Please keep the polls as a Friday feature. I HATE Starbucks. I don’t drink coffee so it goes without saying, which I did.
Glad you liked that, Tom. It was fun for me to do.
I don’t drink coffee, either, but I sometimes lurk in Starbuck’s to write when my teens are being loud at home. When I was a secretary, I was often asked to make coffee when I would first start a job. I said nothing. Just did it. Since I don’t drink it, I had no idea how to make it, and I worked that to my advantage. I was never asked twice. 🙂
Never thought I’d say this, but the Gummy Bear song is damned funny, regardless of the language you listen to it in. It probably goes well with alcohol.
It can certainly drive one to drink, if that’s what you mean. 🙂
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ – yah, Twilight fan-fic with rather disturbing smut that somehow got published. Ecch. On the other hand, you could buy an awful lot of Starbucks funeral coffee with the royalty checks. ‘And would you like formaldehyde with that?’
LOL. They could offer it as an alternative to botox. 🙂
Piper, if you’ve seen the movie Idiocracy, you will know there is 1 business Starbucks should never align with.
If you haven’t seen it, I won’t tell you…. 😉
Okay. Now I’m really curious. I can think of several they should never align with so I’m not sure which one you mean, but I’m guessing I should thank you for you discretion in the comments. Thank you. 🙂
Omnom gummy bear dress.
Nom, nom, nom. 🙂