bitterwaitress

Looking Cool in the Coffee Shop!

Does anyone look cool sitting in a coffee shop any more? Did anyone ever in the first place? It’s a fact that some coffee shops are cooler than others. Everyone loves to bash Starbucks, but at least they pack in the seating. As often as not I’d rather forego the comfy vintage couch for a place to set my laptop. Like right now. Clearly assuming the handicap table and poaching Internet off the much smaller chain across the street. And then there’s the laptop itself. Outside of New York and Los Angeles, it seems that most people use these unattractive machines that bear names like Dell and HP. They are often hefty and have way too many holes in the back. Here in NYC that is not the case . Those glowing white apples everywhere. Like right here. With an iPhone next to it.

I like to glance at the people using machines that run the Windows Operating Shitstorm and wonder if they feel any hint of shame? Or maybe they are playing Halo, in which case, okay, they win - Macs suck at gaming. Although that 24′ inch iMac looks good…..and the porn looks fine so take what you can get. But these Mac users are not playing Halo - nor are the PC users I hazard - because people on laptops in coffee shops are doing IMPORTANT THINGS. They are BUSY PEOPLE who cannot stop for one caffeineated second in their quest to cruise for sex on Manhunt, scan up-to-the-second apartment listing on craigslist (oh who are we kidding - ever since 9/11 it’s not impossible to find an apartment in NYC anymore) or, most important of all BLOGGING.

While Boston is the bloggiest (really a word?) city in America (says somebody) Brooklyn is a very bloggy place indeed. If, in fact, this shithole of a borough retained it’s status as a city, it would be not only the 4th largest in America, but the bloggiest! Take that, Red Sox fans. Oh wait. Brooklyn lost its major league team a while back. To…Los Angeles. The borough has never owned this shame.

Last night I was at a VERY COOL coffee shop in Greenwich Village. It’s called DOMA. The INTERESTING people doing IMPORTANT things there are also BEAUTIFUL. As I’ve written before the attractiveness of Manhattanites is astounding. Then again in New York only the strong survive, and if you don’t think beauty equates strength then you clearly have not visited our fine city. Not so much here in Brooklyn, where I am sitting on a break from my own restaurant. Feeling not so very INTERESTING, and doing nothing terribly IMPORTANT, but looking BEAUTIFUL.