Badass Starbucks Barista Puts The Rest To Shame

24 Feb 2016 by Sloane Hunter in America, Language

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What’s more badass than the person who regularly sells you coffee learning to speak your language. I mean, whether it’s slang from your ‘hood or phrases of your mother tongue it can make you feel all special inside and you’ll probably enjoy that cuppa way more than usual. But Ibby Piracha is deaf and when he visits his local Starbucks weekly, he has to type his order into his phone and then show it to the barista.

But when the 23-year-old entered the shop last week, it came with just that kind of badass-ness we would expect: the barista asked him what he wanted in sign language. She then wrote him a note to explain:

I’ve been learning ASL (American Sign Language) just so you can have the same experience as everyone else.

Excuse me while I cry tears of joy over here.

He posted the note to Facebook:

The barista, Krystal T Piotrowski-Payne, deserves some wine. She is studying Evolutionary and Ecological Biology at Marshall University and only started the gig at Starbucks in January. But it just took her one month to make a small change. Says Piracha:

I was like ‘wow.’ It brought a smile to my face. I was really surprised she had started signing. It wasn’t anything I had asked her to do. She had taken her own initiative and she had done it herself.

I was glad to hear someone supporting the deaf community. Sometimes we feel kind of pushed away, and I wish hearing people were a little more assertive to learn more about us and our community.

Now that‘s a badass barista.

[source: techly]

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