Don't waste yr breath on them, Max and Mrs Max. Find a barista who cares
about the coffee dispensed and enjoy. Perhaps carry a knapsack to store yr
dreams in :-)
Andrew
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On 24 December 2015 at 09:45, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Lucky it's Christmas, Max, so you can get away with 'a tad bad/as ad'! I
> think the point of their policy is not so much that you should look their
> product is stimulating, rather that you should be seen to be
> 'participating' so phone frolics and business chat are fine with them.
>
> Bikk
>
> On Thursday, 24 December 2015, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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