Max what we need is a sleep-in at Starbucks !!!!
apart from the fact I am not supposed to use them re eco and other reasons P
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From: Max Richards
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 4:38 PM
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Subject: 'At Starbucks, Dozing '
At Starbucks, Dozing
'We can't have sleeping in here’.
That’s what my wife heard;
I was asleep.
The Starbucks young woman
passing our table said it.
My wife asked me:
‘Did you hear that? How
offensive. Look round - ’
I opened my eyes, taking in
all the other tables: no-one
slept at them, laptops
and cellphones engrossed
all the patrons, beside
their empty cups and plates.
I went and got two drinks.
Oh all my life in libraries
and such, snoring old men
have saddened me.
Now I’m one of them.
No doubt I seem a tad bad
as ad for the coffee here,
the reverse of stimulating.
My wife is cross on my behalf.
She emails Starbucks at length.
Gets back a formulaic
robotic dumb answer
and a twenty dollar voucher.
Writes again, still they don’t
get the point. Friends say:
Dump Starbucks, try so-and-so.
So we do when we can find them.
They lurk, less visible, waiting
for me to come and doze there.
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