When you work full-time and don’t really have an office, you work largely from home and often from Starbucks…
This past week, I had two unique experiences worth sharing:
#1 – Friday, 3pm @ Sylvan Starbucks. Meeting with Amy Rapp, sitting in corner of small “couch-ish” area. After a loud salesman sat down next to us, sold loudly, and even asked to borrow our pen, it got better! This group of 13 year old girls (my guess – about 6 of them) sat down right next to us.
They proceeded to: 1) laugh incessantly 2) text or tweet or facebook one another on their phones 3) giggle and then text some more and 4) pretend as if they were the only customers there… awesome.
Experience #2 – NE 256th and Stark in Gresham – knocking out emails… A gentleman sits down next to me and proceeds to “setup” his computer gear. Out comes a laptop. And an external hard drive. And another hard-drive. And an ethernet drive. And a large orange extension cord and a power-strip. Everything gets plugged in. Numerous thumb drives are plugged in to a large usb hub. More cables and adapters come out, headphones come out. I manage to sneak this picture… and am now blogging this information while he sits 6 feet to my left. I feel sneaky… here’s my pic:
Reminds me of how much I love/hate Starbucks and how amusing life can be. I’m regularly surprised at how interesting, diverse, and regularly annoying the “general public” is to me. I think that probably means I have a bad attitude…
Cheers,
John
It’s okay. I hate people too.