Coffee shops have lost their damn minds.

The other day I went down to my local Starbucks to get a little work done. I like doing that sometimes. Get out of the house, grab a coffee, post up somewhere and knock out a few things.
This is my way of being around people while still being alone. 

So I order my coffee, find a spot, and go to set up my laptop. That's when I hit a problem.

These tables are the size of coasters. 

The seats are bigger than the tables. I had to play a game of Tetris just to fit my coffee and my laptop on the same surface. 

Now, I've griped about this kind of thing before. Restaurants pulling out the outlets, shrinking the booths, doing everything they can to flip the table and get you out the door. And honestly? I get it. A restaurant makes money when butts keep moving through the seats. Fine. That's the business.

But a coffee shop?

That's where I'm lost.

A coffee shop is supposed to be the one place you GO to sit. To linger. To read, to work, to talk to a buddy, to people watch, to do whatever the hell you feel like doing for an hour. That's the whole point. That's the deal we all signed up for.

Now it feels like they just want you to grab your cup and get the hell out.

I sat there looking at that tiny table and I could just picture some young fella at Starbucks corporate in a meeting somewhere. 

"The tables are still too big," he says. "Can we go smaller?”

And then his buddy chimes in, "You know what else? Those seats are too comfortable. People keep staying. Let's fix that next."

Maybe I'm just an old man yelling at a tiny table. Could be.

But it sure feels like everybody is in such a hurry to turn people over that they forgot some places are supposed to be for staying a while.

Am I the only one who's noticed this? 

Enjoy your Sunday!

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