Dear Bubble Tea Shop Down The Road
We love you. I mean, we really, really, really love you. My best friend and I live together and your Bubble teas are always our favourite little treat. We celebrate with a bubble tea, we cheer ourselves up with a bubble tea, we get a bubble tea for strength and courage before a tough week. Bubble tea is therapy.
So we have both had a very tough week due to crappy work dramas and hideous bosses, and we were so miserable we made a deal, I would go and get us a bubble tea and she would go and get ingredients for a wintery comforting mash-and-stuff dinner. I looked on your website, saw you were open until 6:30, and argued hard with my difficult boss to let me go at 5:30 to make sure I'd make it. After I promised to WORK CHRISTMAS, he let me go. CHRISTMAS.
I negotiated about a billion people on the tube, ran to change lines at Morgate, negotiated about another billion people, this time all sneezing on me, and then literally VAULTED over the ticket barricades (while placing my Oyster on the reader briefly, like an Jason-Bourne-esque free-runner) and ran as fast as I could with work bags and tourists and shopping and signs and buildings and cars all conspiring to occupy the very space I needed to be free in order to get to YOU, Bubble Tea Shop Down The Road.
Breathless, I ran up the little stone steps and at exactly 6:11PM, I smiled and put my hands up against your bright, warm glass doors, beyond which lay the little counter full of lovely lovely bubbles, and our bubble teas, our bubble teas that were going to make it all okay.
And you were CLOSED, Bubble Tea Shop, CLOSED. the girl at the counter looked at my confused face and shook her head. I tried to tell her through the glass, 'But it's not 6:30 yet! but.. But it's not 6:30 yet!!!' she shook her face again, (this time with an apology face it must be said). I stood there, I think I may even have started to crinkle my chin into an almost-cry, 'but... but.. but... ' I was CRUSHED. I nearly did cry to be honest, which makes me feel very, very silly as it is just Bubble tea, but deep down inside we all know some days, no Bubble tea when you really want, nay NEED, a Bubble tea, is the MOST devastating thing that can happen to a person.
Bubble Tea Shop Down The Road, please don't say you're open until 6:30 if you aren't. You are crushing people's spirits, diminishing lives, devastating our days.
All we wanted in the world yesterday, was a Bubble tea. :(
- FirstworldproblemsHQ, North London chapter
NB. I may have had my foot on the exaggerator and some or all of the information in this email may or may not be in there for the lols, but we really were quite disappointed, disproportionally so as we have access to unlimited clean running water, food, and the regular absence of torture, war and disease, but anyhoo.
