Laptops In My Lunch: The Coffee House "Writer"

I can’t get a table at my favorite coffee shop anymore. Ever.

And it’s not because I got blacklisted or anything. It just happens that no matter what time of day I go there, all the tables are already taken with people working on their laptops. One person sits at a table for four, sets up his pretty white Mac, plugs his headphones in, and goes to pounding his keyboard for hours and hours. They sit there completely oblivious, vaguely focused, ignoring the masses of people around them all trying to balance cups of coffee and plates of pastries while they wait for someone to finish their meal, or their screenplay, and vacate a table.

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