Ramble About Gross People At Starbucks
May 29, 2007 at 1:02 PM So I'm sitting at a Starbucks on the upper east side and this totally irritating man comes up to me and wants to share my table. I say sure, fine, absolutely, sit down. But he doesn't, and instead starts moving the table as I'm sitting at it, typing. You see, he wants to lean against a wall and rest his arm here or there or something like that. But I can't type on my laptop when the table is shoved in the corner against the wall, so when the guy goes up to get his coffee, I move it back to where it's supposed to be... So when he comes back, he's all like, "Why isn't the table where I moved it?" Well sir, I can't fit my chair in the small space between it and the window when it's shoved in the corner like that. There are four other tables open, why don't you take one of those? "Because I want to sit here, the light is better." Well, fine, sit here, but you're not moving the table. So he sits at a different table, pulls out his paper, starts reading. People sit at the table next to him, start talking. He asks them to keep it down. They look at him, like, "Crazy fool." He continues to read his paper, then takes off his shoes.
STARBUCKS ISN'T YOUR FREAKIN' LIVING ROOM, GROSS GUY.
Don't ever do this.
Reader Comments (14)
lol i love how crazy people have become in public places. i usually go to barnes and noble on my lunch break and browse (and too often buy!!)and everytime i'm there i see this same guy who gets a book, sits in a chair, opens the book and then falls asleep and starts snoring. he does this ALL the time. the taking off the shoes thing is awful though. that's just unsanitary. btw i am re-reading Save Karyn now and I am still laughing out loud at the same parts, thanks for making me laugh today!
Once I was on a train from Budapest to Zagreb. Now, I was raised right, but without thinking, wearing my Doc Martens hiking books (remember those?), I put my feet up on the seat across from me. Anyway, the border officer, a working man with lot of class, shamed me in a way I had never been shamed before. Since I wasn't growed up in a barn, I was embarassed as all hell when he rightfully put me in my place: Civilized people do not do these things! Public Humiliation might work on Gross Guy - and dishing it out would be empowering!
Oh Gross, freako!!! Keep your feet in your stinkin' shoes! No one wants your fungus around. Blech! You did good to keep it together and not tell him OFF.
Yuck, the guy's feet look dirty and even hairy. Is he a hobbit by any chance? It would expalin his weird anti-social behaviour! Hobbits live in woods, not in big cities!
Heres your next book Karyn... An exponse about people who hang at starbucks all day. Ive had to hang out there a few times recently when I didnt have internet access. Man people are testy. If you take their table they chop you head off. Let alone the fact if it has an outlet. Sheesh.
ewwwwwwww...dat's just ewwwwwwww...
Been to Starbucks today in Nottingham, England. Found myself looking round for non shoe wearers!
Great use of that computer cam!
Maybe you should switch to Coffee Bean.
I love how you take actual pictures of what you are telling us about funny :)
Eeeeuuuuwwwww. OH MY GOD. Disgusting.
Oh and what is it with guys who invade your table, even when there are others free? It's like they think girls should be at home in the kitchen, not daring to have a coffee...ALONE.
This d*ck sat at my table yesterday, I could see two totally empty.
GRRRRRRRR.
oh hell! i was just eating a chunk of chocolate, It grossed me out looking at those feet. Why do people assume that other people want company, even while reading a book, listening to music, or on your laptop, I was at the beach once, music on, reading a book, no one around for hundreds of yards, and this guy sets up right next to me! whats up with that? I could have touched him with my magazine,!argh!
bleck.
Ick.
Yuck.
Are his socks wet??
OK, I'm grossing myself out!
That is incredibly rude....I can't believe he did that....YICK!!!
gross.
Umm so i read this blog
then at work this weekend
(i work in a restaurant)
these two nasty old fat ladies come in, sit down, and put their BARE stinky black feet on the chairs horizontal to them. I wanted to puke.
IT IS NOT YOUR HOUSE! Manners people! honestly...