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"oh and a croissant" by $spyed:iconspyed:



"oh and a croissant"

I'm at a cafe in mid town Manhattan. I'm the only person here. It's 2pm. And I'm starring in a comedy.

There are four waiters. They're all wearing black slacks, white shirts, three are wearing black vests. One stands by the door, the other three about 6 feet behind him. Number two is nervously clapping his hands back and forward entertaining himself with gravity. Number three is standing next to number four. Number four is the woman who served me this horrid latte I'm dealing with and she's literally staring at me as I write this. I think she hopes I'll ask for something else so she can do something with her time.

A minute passes, I look up. All three are staring directly at me and casually look away in exactly the same direction. Synchronized better than Microsoft Outlook ever did.

I can't take the pressure I just want to blog about deviantART things. I snap the menu open, random finger shuffle... I guess I'm buying a... I can't go through with a random finger shuffle. A closer scan of things I don't really want since I ate an hour ago and I discover that I could tolerate orange juice. I literally mutter "orange juice, please" with a volume so low it acknowledges how ridiculous the situation is.  

Instruction received instantly. She didn't look pleased, she gave me a bit of an inside smile... save me? Kill me? Filled with guilt I say, "oh and a croissant."

One, two, three, four. One begins to play with gravity as well, only he incorporates the pen in his hand in to the snap motion. Four and three tell each other a joke and fake laugh.

Meanwhile directly outside, the foot traffic might appear to a small southern town as a stampede. It's a corner shop, it looks nice. I can't figure it out. A whole hour and some and I'm still the only customer.

Number three scratches his eye. Number four performs a standing boredom twitch.

I'd love to pay the bill and leave. Out of pity I can't bring myself to do it!
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^StJoan:iconStJoan: May 6, 2008, 4:43:48 PM
ZOMGSOANNOYING! no...no, not at all, actually. It's a nice snapshot, however--you don't have advanced crit selected on this piece! So I will say--i giggled and it's nice to see a $ litting it up

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`red5:iconred5: May 6, 2008, 4:44:47 PM
I'm not in the Lit community and...oh well.



Reminds me of 'The Darjeeling Limited'.


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*SiathLinux:iconSiathLinux: May 6, 2008, 4:49:56 PM
Your annoyance is probably much overshadowed by those four employs wondering why the shop has no customers and how long they will continue to have a job....

One the other side - (bosses view) - they should have been cleaning, or stocking supplies.. something anything other than staring at the ONE customer in the place ...

Customer perspective - I'd have not ordered anything else - and would have complained about the bad java - (I truly do not tolerate bad coffee in ANY form.)

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~Blackittyrose004:iconBlackittyrose004: May 6, 2008, 5:36:34 PM
How funny little situations such as this can be. It was fun to read this, I could imagine myself in a very similar situation...thanks for sharing!!

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*scars-and-stripes:iconscars-and-stripes: May 6, 2008, 6:56:27 PM
Bad coffee... no customers... go figure 0_o

I find this funny in a pathetic kind of way..... But it sorta makes you wonder what the hell they were doing before you got there, eh?

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*AJGlass:iconAJGlass: May 6, 2008, 7:29:53 PM
Meanwhile directly outside, the foot traffic might appear to a small southern town as a stampede. It's a corner shop, it looks nice. I can't figure it out.


Apparently you didn't get the memo. :paranoid:

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$spyed:iconspyed: May 6, 2008, 8:19:12 PM
lol!

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$spyed:iconspyed: May 6, 2008, 8:19:27 PM
yah! hah

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$spyed:iconspyed: May 6, 2008, 8:30:45 PM
I'm really glad you liked it! :)

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$spyed:iconspyed: May 6, 2008, 8:37:40 PM
yah I considered the employees wondering why... I thought very little about what they should be doing, I didn't write that the menu's were just disgusting and I was wishing they'd pick them all up and clean them. But I decided the best thing to do to make the situation fun was consider the humor in the situation and I found a whole lot of humor when I looked up and they all looked away. it was hilarious! haha

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