Yesterday’s weather forecast was another hot one, but the look Chris Bailey gave Micah Harris upon his return from Starbucks was ice cold, as Harris came back with an incorrect coffee order.
“I specifically told him only a little foam on my cappuccino,” said Bailey. “I like my coffee like my weather forecasts, only partly cloudy. But there he comes waltzing into the studio with the most foam-filled Venti cappuccino I’ve ever seen.”
Harris claims he got the order wrong after an influx of last minute orders from several WKYT staff members who knew he was about to go to Starbucks.
“Usually I have a system,” said Harris. “It’s a real low pressure system, I just pick up Chris Bailey’s cappuccino, my coffee, and Barbara Bailey’s upside-down caramel macchiato. Yesterday was no different and I had run all the predicative models and things were looking good, but then right before I left I noticed a whole new high pressure system coming up from the south of the building. Kristin Kennedy, Monique Blair and Sean Moody were already wanting pumpkin spice lattes, and Puente even had the nerve to ask me if I would stop at Speedway and get him a Crystal Pepsi.”
Harris found out the hard way yesterday that while it’s okay to get the weather wrong, the weather isn’t Chris Bailey’s Starbucks order. He tried to make things right with Bailey by offering the Chief Meteorologist his own coffee, which Bailey took only to pour it out right in front of him.
“Looks like today’s forecast calls for a heavy downpour,” Bailey remarked sarcastically.
“This kind of stuff wouldn’t fly over at LEX 18,” said local storm team Yelp reviewer Anthony Cipriani. “I heard Meck has his coffee flown in daily from Colombia, and then has Chris Goodman grind it by hand before it goes into a French Press manned by an off the clock Steve Butera. Meanwhile, at ABC 36, Jason Myers just hopes Eric Burke remembered to pick up some Folgers K-Cups.”
“Kids these days,” said Rob Bromley. “I don’t know why they like to be fancy and go to Starbucks anyway. I’ve been bringing my own coffee from home for years and it’s the best in the business. Taster’s Choice, black, made every morning from a campfire percolator.”