**RANT**

Something else irritating at work besides childish drama: the hazelnut syrup con artist. Here is how it works to get hazelnut syrup at the buzz: you tell us you want hazelnut in your drink, and then we charge you 50 cents, and then we put one ounce of it into your drink. There is this once customer who comes in EVERY MORNING and orders a latte with hazelnut. Then he comes back and asks for "a little" more syrup, and then comes back and asks for "a little more" syrup until he's basically stolen from us, because he's gotten at least another ounce, sometimes two, that he hasn't paid for. This may sound petty but it gets me incredibly irritated. It's like, look guy, this is a civilized society and certain rules govern it, and one such rule is the PAY FOR YOUR SYRUP rule. What kind of cheapskate do you have to be to pull something like this EVERY DAY. If he wants a sweeter drink, why can't he simply use one of the complimentary sweeteners (there are several: sugar, raw sugar, honey, sweet and low, equal, splenda, and cane syrup)? Not only does he insult my intelligence by doing this same stunt every day, he is refusing to play by the rules that everyone else is fine with. AND when he comes back into the store to ask for more syrup, he inevitably cuts to the front of the line, interrupting my transaction whatever customer I am serving at that moment, thereby being rude not only to me and my cafe but to some innocent bystander who IS PAYING FOR EVERYTHING THEY ARE TAKING. DAMN if you don't want to pay for extra syrup DON'T GET IT. That stuff will kill you anyway.