This one is actually based on a true story. It happened one day at a Starbucks. (Shut up! I had a gift card!) Talon and I overheard a man’s order and immediately burst into laughter.
We couldn’t help it. It was too absurd to exist in this universe.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worser, it did: the man, upon receiving the coffee, complained about the temperature, which was at least two degrees hotter than requested.
There was no more laughter. There was only confusion. Had we stumbled into an alternate universe where the specifics of hot bean-water was deathly important?
“Do you get this a lot?” I asked the barista.
“You have no idea,” she said with weariness in her voice.
That’s when we knew we were, indeed, in an alternate reality where absurdity is the norm. In fact, we realized we had always been in this reality of incessant absurdity. And what a glorious world it is.