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January 13, 2006
The Most Brazen Camper
Anyone who claims that Times Square has lost its sleazy feel ever since Guiliani cleaned it up and replaced it with a theme park in the 1990s can still find a modicum of old-school sketchiness at the 24 Starbucks near the Port Authority at 2am. Here you can still find a gaggle of homeless, tourists who don't have a place to stay for the night, and people you would normally find sleeping at a bus station, were it not for the fact that Port Authority requires a ticket to enter the station at that time of night. The worst of the evening, however, was not the homeless or the would-be bus-station campers. It was one of the yuppies.
Why did I go to Starbucks? Well, I needed to get coffee and check my e-mail while waiting for my 3:30am bus to leave for Boston. Other people seemed to have the same idea in mind, as there were a few other people with laptops jockeying for an electrical outlet to plug in to. I'm never one to criticize someone for hanging out all day at a coffee shop as an excuse to work on your laptop or maybe even make a few cell phone calls. Heck, I've done it myself at places like the Dolores Park Café while travelling in California. But this guy was just over-the-top brazen:
Yes, as you can see, he set up a desktop computer at Starbucks and worked there. Next, perhaps out of boredom or figuring, "hey, it's 2 AM!" he started playing mp3s from his computer speakers entertaining us with his mediocre taste in music.
To his credit, however, he let other laptop owners use his power strip.
Posted by Dean at January 13, 2006 8:09 PM