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Rappy: I'd like a large capuccino. I've brought my mug.
Salad bar owner: No.
Rappy: Why not?
Salad bar owner: We only make coffee in our own take-away cups. If you want you can pour it into your mug outside.
Rappy: But I brought my own mug so you wouldn't use a take-away cup, to be friendly to the environment.
Salad bar (incidentally, called GREEN) owner: You can only have it in the take-away cup.
Rappy: I guess that means no coffee for me then.
Rappy: I'd like a large capuccino. Here, I've brought a mug.
Cafe cashier: *Stares in confusion, stammers...* I can put it into a take-away mug and you can pour it in.
Rappy: Well, no. The reason I brought the mug is to save the use of a non-reusable cup.
Cafe cashier: That's all I can do.
Rappy: I guess that means no coffee for me then.
Cafe cashier: Wait. I'll check what I can do. Let me have the mug so I can measure what size coffee it fits.
Rappy: Ok. Thanks.
Cafe cashier: *Fills mug with water, ascertains it is a medium, pours it down drain [The sigh here is implied. There was an actual volume measurement MARKED on the mug], leaves with barrista* That'll be a medium capuccino. 13 Shekels please.
Rappy: Here you go. Thank you.
Cafe cashier: You're welcome.
Rappy: *Happily awaits capuccino in own mug*
Barrista: *Prepares coffee, pours it into take-away mug, then pours it into mug.*
Rappy: *SIGH*
HA! sorry, that's just funny. Good on you for trying. I may make some attempts at that around here and see what happens.
Posted by: MrsGryn at June 26, 2007 03:09 PMI was explaining to someone that it isn't even out of pettiness - there is literally zero awareness in this country to the issue of garbage.
Posted by: rappy at June 26, 2007 08:34 PMWhich is kind of ironic. This is a local land fill in the south end of Tel Aviv: www.hiriya.co.il/hiriya/default_e.asp
There isn't anyone in this country who doesn't know it. It's easily 10 stories high, if not more. It's an utter blight on the local landscape, and yet very few people make the connection.