CLEVELAND, OH— This morning, during a popular cafe’s morning rush, barista Leila Tehrani watched a fruit fly hover around, then slowly crawl towards, a freshly-made cappuccino, only to enter the drink just as she called the customer’s name.
“I was steaming milk and pulling a shot for the drink, and this fruit fly was hovering around,” Tehrani, a barista of three years, told us. “I waved it away a few times, poured the milk into the espresso, and put it on the counter.”
According to witnesses, as Tehrani poured a shot of sparkling water and grabbed a demi-spoon to serve with the drink, the fruit fly hovered around the cup, landed, then walked slowly along its rim. Tehrani called out the drink, putting the sparkling water and spoon down just as the fly took its final plunge into the drink right before her eyes.
“It dropped in the moment the words left my mouth, just as my eyes landed on it,” she told us. “Seriously, fuck fruit flies.”
According to our sources, Tehrani quickly called out “never mind,” and remade the drink as the confused customer walked back to his table.
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