Coffee Wars: Ecks vs. Sever



So my brother now works at a national coffee chain, the popular one to be exact. I, of course, work at a large natural grocery chain as a barista and coffee bar manager. This would seem to put DanDan Noodle and me at odds, or even cross-purposes. However, the reality of situation places us (as per usual) on two sides of the same coin, doing the same sort of thing in different places, but more importantly, for different reasons and with different results. I think it says something about both of us that we each often end up doing something that the other either has done or is doing. I suppose it simply makes us good brothers that take an active interest in one another, and not a creepy pair of weirdos that constantly attempt to one-up each other in every aspect of their lives. Ok, maybe we are sick and weird, and maybe we are both obssesed by other's perception of the collective us, but is that so wrong, really? If neither of us had ever found girlfriends, we would end up a pair of dangerous elderly eccentrics, crushed to death by our collected piles of newspapers, well probably records, but crushed to death none the less.
- posted by Mason @ 7:39 AM