Coffee House Ambiance

[bigpeeler]

Originally Posted by thrillhouse

there is a neighborhood coffeehouse near my former apartment called The Bourgoise Pig." i love that coffee shop because they always let me bring my two small dogs in.

the irony of today's "coffeehouses" is that they are full of people on laptops ~ talking electronically ~ whereas before it was all about people getting together and communicating together as the experience itself.

*tugs at beret on head*

Ha! We actually toyed with the idea of banning laptops and...gasp...cell phones, but we relented. Too dictatorial. But it was disheartening to see 20-30 people sitting around, some 4-5 to a table and basically not communicating.

The real pisser was when these "mall" moms and "soccer" moms would come in with their ill-behaved progeny. They would turn our house into a day-care center. They'd sit in clusters blathering about their latest GAP purchase or something equally inane, all the while their screaming mini-beasts would be running around the shop bothering everyone else. We'd come out and give the kid a cookie or a bagel so that they'd have something else to do with their pieholes other than scream. Then the moms would get indignant like we were interfering with their parental skills.

...sigh...

This would be when I would go in back, grab the remote to the music system and crank up some Slipknot nice and loud. It didn't take too much of that to get the Stepford Wives up and out of my store.