So, hot on the newswire Saturday was a woman named Jordan Triplett, of Knox County, TN. What was so important about her that a blog in Philadelphia is talking about her? Starbucks Gossip mentions what Knox News reports. “Jordan Triplett went for a morning pick-me-up from Starbucks and wound up with first-degree burns.”

According to the lawsuit, as reported by Knox News, she ordered coffee from a Starbucks drive-thru window—and may I take a moment to point out that how come the South gets drive-thru Starbuckses, and we don’t?? —and she noticed that the lid was not on properly. “[She] balanced the extremely hot cup of coffee on her thigh with her hand on top of the cup as she pulled away from the window and negotiated a turn onto the roadway.”

That’s when she spilled it all over her lap, causing, “severe blisters and burns on her hand, inner thigh and vaginal area.”

I posted a comment on Starbucks Gossip, and it goes a little bit like this: (more…)