“Clever laptop pun”

Written by rob on August 5th, 2009

The Wall Street Journal has a story about coffee shops pulling the plug on free-loading laptop users. Read it here.

Look, I’m a “writer,” in the sense that I like collecting rejection letters. I’ve always felt like the people who go to a coffee shop to write are lame. It seems like they’re more interested in someone (usually a pretty girl) coming up to them to talk to them about their deep thoughts and insights a.k.a. lame poetry.

Or they want to surf the web for a few hours while nursing a single cup of coffee. Who cares if paying customers can’t sit down? There’s pictures of cats with funny captions to be looked at! Also lame.

Or they want to show off their new MacBook. Lame lame lame.

I tried to write in a coffee shop once. It wasn’t on a laptop, I was doing line-edits on a printed manuscript. I was curious to see if there was anything to sitting in a coffee shop and working. I felt like a self-absorbed tool and ended up drinking five cups of coffee because I felt bad for monopolizing the space. Plus, it was too loud to concentrate.

So instead of getting some good work done, I ended up frustrated and jittery. LAME!

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