Classic First-World-Problem Lawsuit: Woman Accuses Starbucks of Putting Too Much Ice in Iced Coffee

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6. I'll still sit back and have some popcorn.

A suit against Starbucks, even as #firstworldproblems as this one? I'm totally ok with it. Couldn't happen to a more deserving company.

Speaking of Starbucks and suits, a friend's experience there this weekend drives home the point that a lot of people may laugh at "frivolous" law suits that aren't at all frivolous, and maybe they should be a bit more humble about their judgments. In this case, it was a flashback to the infamous McDonald's hot coffee in the crotch case. After seeing what happened to her, nobody gets to laugh at that case as far as I'm concerned.

She got her cup of coffee and went to the condiment area to fix it up. She was wearing a jogging hoodie, the kind that has cuffs that come up over the hand and lets the thumb pop through a hole to keep it all in place. She accidentally knocked the coffee over her hand and wrist while taking off the lid.

It hurt like hell and she didn't think anything of it, but then she pulled back the wet sleeve and a large portion of the skin from the wrist to the base of her thumb peeled right off - scalded away in a moment. Underneath, it was completely shiny and red, and didn't hurt, a very bad sign. By later that day, it was clear that all that layer of skin was dead as well, and she had a massive blister under it. It seemed like a stupid, everyday sort of minor injury, but it wasn't. She's going to need a heck of a lot of doctoring to fix that up, and a nurse noted that it was something that could require a skin graft. So laughing at the lady who did that in her lap at McDonald's and wound up needing skin grafts in her crotch... let's just check those assumptions at the door. Sometimes really stupid-sounding things actually have merit.