Everybody, I have seen the end of the universe. It's at West Gray and Shepherd right here in Houston, TX. At this intersection, there is a Starbucks coffee house right accross the street from a...Starbucks coffee house. If I had a rock, I think I could hit the other one and that sounds like a good idea. You should try standing facing Starbucks. Then imagine all of the things in the world that might be behind you. At that moment, slowly turn 180 degrees and you'll be amazed to see...Starbucks.
Word on the street is that one of those Starbucks was one of the most profitable ones in the country. I think they then built the other one to add on the drive thru feature, although I could be wrong. To make it worse, there is another Starbucks about a mile away on Memorial, and anotehr one a mile the other direction by the Randalls on Westheimer.
I don't know why, but I can't stop laughing after reading krosfyah's post. I have to go there when I drop by Houston again. I used to drive around the S. Shepherd/Westheimer area all the time. Take pictures next time.
Yes, that was a nationally famous example in my commercial appraisal class. They serve two different markets. Both are profitable. Both on expensive real estate. One has the commuter drive thru thing, the other the stop and linger thing. They'd do it again, if they'd hit that same traffic/demographic pattern. Edit - they also do it to max sales across different drive patterns in target demographics - just like gas stations. Outbound traffic one way, inbound another.
It must be for people with alzheimers. They walk out of one Starbucks and say "oh look, a Starbucks." I think I was at the Laff Stop when Lewis black started to do that joke. The Laff Stop is only a block or so away. Also, I think that there are 3 Starbucks relatively close together at the Tollway and Fairmont Parkway. I know there's a regular one, one in a Barnes & Noble, and another one I can't remember where.
This was like word for word, exactly what Lewis Black said. Have you no shame? We watch Comedy Central too. You are like my brother, he always retells one or two stand up jokes to older people in our family or people he knows who haven't seen the act that he's copying.
That's his name. I forgot it. I laughed my a$$ off but he didn't specify where in Houston. But yesterday I personally witnessed it. So there are other locations like that? This county is nuts. Gotta love it.
That's when I knew I found the exact spot he was referring to. I didn't know for sure but when I noticed the Laff Stop down the street I figured that was the birth of the joke. Kinda cool. My wife thought I was nuts but I couldn't stop giggling.
I'm pretty sure he starts it off by saying that he was walking out of a comedy club after a show etc. . . . So you are most likely right, that is the birth of the joke.
That's old news, but still, I get a kick out of it. I never been to those two starbucks. There is a starbucks near amc 24 in willowbrook, and then across 249 and 1960 there is another one. God I love that company. Worse than Microsoft in my Opinion. Both of them just happen to be from Seattle too. Lucky Yao likes starbucks, or else I would hate them.
When I stayed in Atlanta, I used to live by a freeway that had two Waffle Houses (on different sides of the freeway). I also thought that was pretty strange.
When i was in Bulgaria on a mission trip after my freshman year, On one side of the road there was a McDonalds in the caapitol city Sofia, and then no joke on the other side of the road exactly 180 degrees there was a nother McDonald's(talk aboutthe friggin end of the world)
