VANCOUVER, BC—Tight-faced Adam McHale shocked customers to their very core early Friday morning when for the first time in The Drip's history, he smiled.

"At least, I think it was a smile," said regular customer Janet Canjan. "It could have been a twitch. Whatever it was, it was terrifying. Like, in a nice way?"

McHale, who has been a barista for five years, is best known in the coffee community for his mediocre service and loud, exasperated sighs at regular five-minute intervals.

"Almost like someone just told him about a band he's been soooo over for 10 years," Canjan confirmed.

27-year-old McHale shrugged when asked to comment on the incident that took place at 8:15am Friday.

"I thought about what it would look like if a bird sneezed," he grumpily replied. He then looked our journalist dead in the eye, asked if she was going to order something, and began to make her latte after she hastily named the first drink on the menu out of fear of being seen as a loser.

Terri Schmidt, 21, another regular, was also present for the bizarre occurrence and says it was like seeing God for the first time. A lifelong atheist, Schmidt headed directly to church moments after seeing the so-called grin.

"Like, you know when people find Jesus in toast or chips or whatever? It was like that," she explains. "But on an actual human face. And he doesn't look like Jesus. He looks like that old guy in Titanic twenty years ago. But the young version."

Schmidt went on to admit that she only goes to The Drip for one reason and one reason only: the baristas. "Everyone who works there is so hot," she gasps. "The men and the women. I would have sex with all of them." Schmidt adds that she because she goes to The Drip numerous times a day, McHale just "knows her order now."

Janet Canjan says the smiling incident this morning has completely changed her experience of McHale. "He usually just nods when words come out of my mouth and then gives me an Americano regardless of what I say," she divulges. "But now that I know he has more than just one emotion [bored], I'll probably go twice a day. I'm an ill person."

When we tried to get a quote from McHale he responded by cranking up Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs and mumbled, "great fucking album." He then skateboarded off into the sunset like a beautiful, misunderstood nightmare.