I suppose I shouldn't be too hard on them. The Starbucks culture encourages it, in the way they repeat the orders in exactly the right syntax. After all, it takes five words just to get my iced tea ("iced venti unsweetened black tea"). Plus, when you're spending $3.50 for a cup of coffee, you darned well ought to have it exactly the way you want it, even if it takes a whole paragraph to describe it. It just struck me as funny. I can order a complete lunch at Wendys using fewer words ("number one, with cheese, biggie-sized, iced tea, no lemon").