New York has great coffee and great cafe culture. You name it: Cafe Grumpy, Ninth Street Espresso, Abraco – the places hum with activity. However, sometimes they can be a bit much.
On the weekend, Wen and I went out to Grumpy’s original Greenpoint location to take in the neighbourhood and an arts and crafts fair (I picked up some carrot habanero sauce and pumpkin butter; very unexpected). I couldn’t help but notice this group working away in the corner:
What you’ve got there are four people, all with identical MacBooks. Each is plugging away and completely oblivious to each other. A bit of a parody of a twentysomething working in a coffee shop…