Starbucks barista scared by creepiest customer ever who doesn’t leave and stares at her

Lauren Lewis
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A “creepy” customer who waits outside Starbucks and stares at them has become the subject of a viral post after the barista called them out, asking what she can do about it.

In a post that went viral on Reddit, a Starbucks barista shared her experience with a customer who regularly comes into the store. 

“There’s a customer who basically lives at the store I work at. He spends my entire shift on his laptop staring at photos and videos of almost fully nude women, then heavily staring at any woman who could pass as a minor, including me,” she begins. 

He says that he will then disappear “into the bathroom for suspiciously long amounts of time.”

In one incident, a group of schoolchildren came into the store, and she explains “he was staring directly down into their thighs for literally minutes.”

Perhaps the creepiest thing is that he apparently “waits outside at night after we close.”

People freaked out by creepy Starbucks customer 

After the woman posted the story on the platform, it really got people talking. In fact, many people shared similar experiences:

“We have one of these. He likes to order hot cinnamon water and sit in the corner touching himself while he watches OnlyFans. Then he goes to use the washroom and comes back 40 mins later.

“I kicked him out of my store in January. I absolutely do not/did not care if I was ‘allowed’ to. I was closing alone and he started talking to me saying I’d make a killing on OF touching myself while wearing my apron.”

Another had an even stranger experience, writing: 

“When I was 19 I worked at a store outside of Seattle. A man would come in during most of my shifts and sit in the corner writing on line paper for hours. After about a month he brought me a thick stack of paper and told me that this entire time he’d been writing a novel about me being an alien princess.”

Many urged the barista to confront him, to which she replied: “I’m 4’11 and he’s been ogling me for days. Confronting him myself sounds like an easy way to end up in a lot of danger.”

The OP did report that she’d spoken to her store manager, but nothing had been done yet.

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Lauren is a fast food writer at Dexerto. Covering some of the biggest brands in the industry, you'll find her writing about McDonald's, KFC, Wendy's, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, Taco Bell, and Domino's Pizza, to name a few. Lauren has a Master's degree in English Literature, and loves nothing more than putting pen to paper. You can contact Lauren at lauren.lewis@dexerto.com.