Dear Coffee Shop as an Office Guy

Dear Coffee Shop as an Office Guy,

I'm sure you are a good guy doing important things. You and I have the unique privilege of being able to work where and when we want to so when we find ourselves as the local coffee shop sitting across from each other in the comfy leather chairs we should do so knowing that there are a lot of others ways to work, that are not as easy going. I have a few things that I'd hope you would consider and I humbly suggest would make all of our experience a bit better.

You sit there i your cushy chair drinking your coffee with your headphones connected to the notebook in your lap. IBM... you must be in sales.

Here's are a few tip.

1. Putting your bare feet up on the chair you commendeared from the adjacent table is just plain nasty. If for some reason my eyes wander just north of my screen I see your feet, which I refuse to observe long enough to be able to write a description of. Keep your head down Mark. Keep your head down. Mr. Coffee Shop as an Office Guy put your flip-flops on or consider asking your primary care physician about a remedy for your athletes foot.

2. When you have headphones on and you cough I feel the ground shake.

3. When you have headphones on please turn your cell phone on vibrate, it's ringing every 20 minutes and you don't hear it. Oh and you have voice mail.

Just some suggestions to remind you that this isn't your living room, this is a public place where people eat. There are others here who are working too, or pretending to.

Your Officemate,

Mark