To the left of me is one of those plastic things that they put in the opening of the lids of Starbuck's coffee cups so that the coffee doesn't dribble on you when you're bringing it back to your table. Years from now, someone will clean out their house and come across one of these stirrer things, and say "remember when Starbuck's used to put these things in the opening of the lids of the coffee cups?"
Maybe, for someone, that green stirrer thingee might be a keepsake from their lives that means more to them than anything else in the word.
Perhaps it reminds them of a time when they bought a cappuccino for a person they had a secret crush on, and how the object of said crush dipped the stirrer into the cappuccino so that it had a dollop of foam on it, and then drew a mustache on the person who had a crush on them, causing that person to feel all tingly and feel like the must lucky person in the whole wide world.
And then I could see fate separating these two people for some reason, and then I could see them meeting, like, years later, and totally hitting it off, and at some point, the person who had a crush on the other person would talk about how they were going through this box of stuff from years and years ago, and how they came across that Starbuck's stirrer thingee, and how, for a long while, that was this person's most precious possession.
For all I know, perhaps it still is.
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