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God can even use the absurdity
of an iced, half caff,
ristretto, venti,
4-pump, sugar free, cinnamon, dolce
soy skinny latte to bring
a lost sheep
back to the fold
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Salt Lake City, UT—Kody Hollis’ recent return to the faith
of his youth was apparently triggered by a customer request made while Kody was
working as a barista at a Salt Lake City Starbucks.
“Yah, so this guy comes in,” recounted Kody, “and orders a triple,
venti, half sweet, non-fat, caramel macchiato and it suddenly struck me; what
the @#^& am I doing here.” Kody continued that “the absurdity of making
this ridiculous drink for some pretentious University of Utah hipster and then making similar drinks for
the line of equally pretentious hipsters behind him just made me snap out of
whatever fog I’d been in.”
Kody’s experience of suddenly “coming to himself” was
followed by other experiences that eventually led the twenty-five year-old to
return to his parents and the church he was raised in.
“So I went back to my apartment, you know, after my shift,
and looked in the mirror, saw the piercings and those ludicrous gauges, and
decided that I really need to make a change.” Kody was going to discuss his decision
with his roommates, but Brian was in the shower with his girlfriend Candice and
Kameron was passed out with a bong beside him on their dilapidated, red, Deseret
Industries sectional couch.
Kody’s decision was not an easy one, and he nearly faltered
on the drive back to his parents’ home in Wellsville, Utah. “I got off the
freeway,” explained Kody, “and dropped into a Starbucks along the way, in Ogden
I think, you know, to pick up something and to think about this [decision]
before just going back to Cache Valley.” Kody concluded that “well, so this girl
with a weed tattoo on her neck was in front of me in line, and she
ordered a grande chai tea latte, 3 pump, skim milk, lite water, no foam, extra
hot and I was like ‘I gotta get away from this $%^*!’”
Sweet.
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