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The $3 coffee most certainly does entitle you to sit there for an hour. That's the whole point of getting a coffee in a coffee shop. And if you told me to leave

by mnm1 9y ago

The $3 coffee most certainly does entitle you to sit there for an hour. That's the whole point of getting a coffee in a coffee shop. And if you told me to leave after 5 to 10 minutes, I'd tell you to call the cops and make me. With that kind of attitude, however, your coffee shop won't be in business long, so it shouldn't really be a problem that you treat people with so much disrespect.

EliRivers 9y ago
if you told me to leave after 5 to 10 minutes, I'd tell you to call the cops and make me. Presumably the owner would actually have asked your mother or whichever other adult is with you, though.
- IIIIIIIIIIIIIII 9y ago
  Why do you insult OP? If they had signs stating their policy clearly upfront I would accept it, but if not, in the cultures that I know the purpose of a coffee shop is exactly to sit there for quite a while. I'm in Germany and I used to live in the US for a decade. If I go to a real Italian coffee shop (i.e. the owner is an Italian), of which there are quite a few, I see people sitting and chatting for long times, an hour is not unreasonable at all. They don't order much after the initial purchase either. Also, the entire history of coffee shops is that they are places of meeting people, not vending places. So if a particular coffee shop wants to have a "10 minutes only" policy I'm certainly fine with it, everybody can lead their business as they wish, but to what I know this is against all expectations, so it should be stated right away. For laptop policy it depends more on the local context and I would not always expect to see a sign if they don't want it, but just the acceptance of larger amounts of time spent sitting there alone is a more global thing I would think taht cannot be easily deduced just from looking at a place.
  - EliRivers 9y ago
    Why do you insult OP? Laughably childish responses - "call the cops and make me" - indicate that the OP is childish. With childish people, reasoned discussion is less likely to carry the message that such behaviour is ridiculous than the public humiliation of having such childish behaviour highlighted. There will then be a small tantrum, probably involving turning it around and blaming me in some way (I expect I simply don't understand - that's the usual childish response, typically from teenagers) which shall be ignored. Act like a child; get treated like a child. Nothing at all to do with the subject matter.
- mnm1 9y ago
  Presumably you don't understand that the $3 is as much for a spot to sit as for the coffee, but considering your comment, it isn't surprising that you don't understand how coffee shops work.

by mnm1 9y ago

EliRivers 9y ago

if you told me to leave after 5 to 10 minutes, I'd tell you to call the cops and make me. Presumably the owner would actually have asked your mother or whichever other adult is with you, though.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIII 9y ago
Why do you insult OP? If they had signs stating their policy clearly upfront I would accept it, but if not, in the cultures that I know the purpose of a coffee shop is exactly to sit there for quite a while. I'm in Germany and I used to live in the US for a decade. If I go to a real Italian coffee shop (i.e. the owner is an Italian), of which there are quite a few, I see people sitting and chatting for long times, an hour is not unreasonable at all. They don't order much after the initial purchase either. Also, the entire history of coffee shops is that they are places of meeting people, not vending places. So if a particular coffee shop wants to have a "10 minutes only" policy I'm certainly fine with it, everybody can lead their business as they wish, but to what I know this is against all expectations, so it should be stated right away. For laptop policy it depends more on the local context and I would not always expect to see a sign if they don't want it, but just the acceptance of larger amounts of time spent sitting there alone is a more global thing I would think taht cannot be easily deduced just from looking at a place.
- EliRivers 9y ago
  Why do you insult OP? Laughably childish responses - "call the cops and make me" - indicate that the OP is childish. With childish people, reasoned discussion is less likely to carry the message that such behaviour is ridiculous than the public humiliation of having such childish behaviour highlighted. There will then be a small tantrum, probably involving turning it around and blaming me in some way (I expect I simply don't understand - that's the usual childish response, typically from teenagers) which shall be ignored. Act like a child; get treated like a child. Nothing at all to do with the subject matter.
mnm1 9y ago
Presumably you don't understand that the $3 is as much for a spot to sit as for the coffee, but considering your comment, it isn't surprising that you don't understand how coffee shops work.