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coffee shop hanger out ats
« on: January 03, 2012, 06:53:34 PM »
there are three coffee shops that are very close to where i live.  actually within about 2 blocks from each other.

two of the shops are named the same thing.  and owned by the same person.  the third is a starbucks, but i never happen by there unless i'm going to the place next to it for dinner.  even if i go to that place for dinner i might not walk by the third coffee shop because there is another route that takes me to the dinner place and i like going that way, sometimes.

every time i walk by coffee shop 1 and coffee shop 2, which is quite often- as in almost everyday, there are a lot of people just hanging out.  they look like the same people i see shopping at urban outfitters.

some will sit inside and surf the web/work on their laptops. maybe studying?  some read the newspaper.  some sit outside at the tables and just chat with each other and drink coffee, they act like they know each other.  i know for a fact that the people at coffee shop 2 know each other, at least some of them.  a bunch of them ride their motorcycles there and park them out front in a long row.  usually there's a few standing around looking at one of the motorcycles and discussing it with each other.

why do they hang out at the coffee shop?   :confused:

admittedly, i don't drink coffee and truly believe it's for cowards so the only time i go in is for a smoothie (yogurt [lowfat frozen], orange, banana [strings] {frozen}, strawberries [seeds]).
i always look around at them while waiting for my weekly smoothie (sundays) and wonder what they're doing it and why they chose a coffee shop to do it at.  seems like a terrible place to work, study, or meet people.

would love to have someone shed some light on this phenomenon for me.  unless i'm given a good reason as to why they're there, i'm going to continue to assume the worst about these people.  a couple of sundays ago there was a really hot girl at coffee shop 1 at the bar next to the window surfing the web on her mac book pro.  i'll assume she was there for legitimate purposes.


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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2012, 06:58:31 PM »
I, personally, have never understood the obsession with coffee shops. I've never seen anyone besides losers there. Sorry I can't help you out, pissclams.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2012, 07:00:44 PM »
I, personally, have never understood the obsession with coffee shops. I've never seen anyone besides losers there. Sorry I can't help you out, pissclams.

wow.  not the kind of response i expected.  from, you.


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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2012, 07:08:03 PM »
the internet can't hold your hand through your entire life.  just pick a rough ridin' urinal and move on.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2012, 07:08:21 PM »
I'm guessing most are underage, religious, or have gone through AA. Thus, instead of hanging out at a bar like normal people, they hang out where there is no booze to drink.

Also, hipsters tend to want to be seen where other hipsters can see them and thus have "cred". No better place than the local piss water coffee shop

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2012, 07:12:45 PM »
I wonder what half the people in LA do all day. Always people out during the day. Not from the service sector either. Lots of nice cars, white collar-y types just out.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2012, 07:13:45 PM »
I wonder what half the people in LA do all day. Always people out during the day. Not from the service sector either. Lots of nice cars, white collar-y types just out.

people in LA don't really work a lot.  i think most are just naturally rich.


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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2012, 07:39:52 PM »
Yeah. Being rich in LA is like uni-brows in the midwest. Just happens. No matter how hard you try to get rid of it, people can still see it.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2012, 07:58:38 PM »
I, personally, have never understood the obsession with coffee shops. I've never seen anyone besides losers there. Sorry I can't help you out, pissclams.

wow.  not the kind of response i expected.  from, you.

Yeah, I didn't mean it. I've been stuck in troll mode ever since the pigaggie invasion. In real life, too.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2012, 08:09:03 PM »
I think the OP is just yet another example of how the NBC sitcom Friends changed modern society. I have been around these types you referred to before and I think they hold the characters of that sitcom in high regard and try to emulate the character's lives in their REAL lives.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2012, 08:15:12 PM »
free internet

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2012, 08:21:37 PM »
free internet

i considered that.  and there is some truth to it.  but it's not the answer.  b/c there's still a ton of hanger outters without a lappy.
also, there's a lot of places that have free internet now.  like the giant library down the street.  and chipotle.  and mcdonalds.  and most bars.  and parks.  and is it really free when you're paying $6 for a Grande coffee in a venti cup with 2 pumps hazelnut, 2 pumps vanilla, 2 pumps caramel, 2 equals and 4 sweet and lows filled to the top with cream, with extra cream on the side, double cupped with no sleeve, a stir stick, and stopper put in the top?
no.  it's not free.


I think the OP is just yet another example of how the NBC sitcom Friends changed modern society. I have been around these types you referred to before and I think they hold the characters of that sitcom in high regard and try to emulate the character's lives in their REAL lives.

this holds some weight.  i saw a girl with her haircut like rachel's at coffee shop 3.  but coffee shop 3 also has the highest concentration of african americans.  don't remember seeing to many aa's on friends! :lol:


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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2012, 08:23:38 PM »
maybe it's like a bar to people who don't drink? I have no idea.  

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2012, 08:28:23 PM »
who cares. not me.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #14 on: January 03, 2012, 08:34:47 PM »
who cares. not me.

wrong thread.  loser.


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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #15 on: January 03, 2012, 08:57:04 PM »
Weird question to ask. Coffee shops have been a place to meet people and exchange ideas ever since coffee made its way across the ocean. You would be surprised at how much was accomplished during the enlightenment at coffee shops.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2012, 09:40:33 PM »
who cares. not me.

wrong thread.  loser.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #17 on: January 03, 2012, 09:55:31 PM »
Weird question to ask. Coffee shops have been a place to meet people and exchange ideas ever since coffee made its way across the ocean. You would be surprised at how much was accomplished during the enlightenment at coffee shops.


weird response to respond.  the place isn't a meeting place or an idea exchange, it's a coffee shop. sorry you're so dumb you didn't know that, across the ocean.  hey guys, lets skype on our mbp's.  i'll be at coffee shop 1, you go to coffee shop 3.  ok, go!

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2012, 10:08:32 PM »
maybe they are more quiet than bars and being there by yourself is less sad than being by yourself at a bar.

Dunno, never been to a coffee shop before.

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2012, 10:11:40 PM »
dumbass
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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #20 on: January 03, 2012, 10:13:46 PM »
The motorcycle gang at coffee shop #2 is very wtf.

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« Reply #21 on: January 03, 2012, 10:18:59 PM »
I hate people who read books in a coffee shop. Why are you reading a book in a coffee shop. Is your home so horrible and smells so bad that you can't concentrate to read a book at home? Just read at home loser. Why on earth would you sit in a coffee shop and read all by yourself? WTF? Go home and read. Are you waiting for someone? Doubt it.

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« Reply #22 on: January 03, 2012, 10:25:42 PM »
when you start a thread that makes the local news, you get full of yourself.  you start to get lazy as a poster.  before long, you're starting threads that ask, "which urinal should i use?"  

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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #23 on: January 03, 2012, 10:59:12 PM »
it's the costanza phenomenon.. if you read/play on lappy at your house you don't feel like you've done anything productive. but if you go "out" to do those things you feel like you did something..

so basically, 7 bucks for latte and a scone. 3 hours of pretending to be productive but mostly just people watching. and trying to look hip. in a nutshell.
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Re: coffee shop hanger out ats
« Reply #24 on: January 03, 2012, 11:01:46 PM »
I hate people who read books in a coffee shop. Why are you reading a book in a coffee shop. Is your home so horrible and smells so bad that you can't concentrate to read a book at home? Just read at home loser. Why on earth would you sit in a coffee shop and read all by yourself? WTF? Go home and read. Are you waiting for someone? Doubt it.

this.  so glad that someone gets it.  also so glad no one can reasonably explain coffee shop people.


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