Coffee Shops

I am a certified seat-hog at coffee shops. I can just sit there, put my brain on auto drive, do nothing but drink copious amounts of coffee for about 5 hours. Call me lazy, but that’s what I like to do during my spare time – no wonder my social life is next to nonexistent.

Coffee lovers such as myself would agree that coffee shops are probably the next best thing to sliced bread. After all, we coffee aficionados have to live off something. Prowling the streets aimless, low on caffeine, just won’t do.

Entering a coffee shop has always been a different experience. Upon entering, you see businessmen doing what they do best – do business. In another corner, you see students pour over textbooks for their next exam – they either look smart or want to look smart, the latter more often in most cases.

Depending where you enter, there are two worlds you can find in the coffee shop. The outside world, and the inside world. Naturally, you find the coffee drinkers of the outside world smoke themselves to high heavens.

In the inside, you’ll find royal bums such as myself, hogging the sofas and doing practically nothing. On occasion, these bums bring books to read, but this is a rare occurrence since we allow our brains to turn into mush the second our posterior comes in contact with the plush sofa seats. After sipping our coffee idly, we soon doze off and deprive other bums of wonderful seating for the next 5 hours.

Outside, you see artists, writers; other bums hold their traditional coffee meetings. They talk about god knows what and often leave on a high – may it because of the caffeine fix or their smoking, we will never know.

On occasion, bums like me come with every intention to write. After all, the sophisticated ambiance has to be good for something, right?

So armed with the infamous yellow pad and a cheap runny ballpen, I set out to write. If Rowling was able to write an international best seller at a roadside coffee shop of some kid with a stick, think of the wonders I would be able to write.

Three cups later, this article was born.