Video Catches Woman Urinating In Coffee Pots
New York Resident To Spend 30 Days In Jail
WHITESTOWN, N.Y., 8:06 a.m. EDT April 27, 2001 -- Air traffic
controller Holly Jones must spend 30 days in jail for urinating in a work
coffee pot. New York State Police say that Jones was upset
about being passed over for a promotion.
http://www.channel3000.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-74344220010427-070412.html
Someone’s been watching a little too much Fight Club.
Ever since we saw that movie Pepper Mill’s been a little nervous about restaurants.
Speaking of which, there was an article in the NY Times last week about the Starbucks chain, which now has an outlet on BOTH FUCKING SIDES of Astor Place.
“We’ve found that people won’t cross a street to buy coffee.” – Some Starbucks Executive.
Well, thank you so god damn much, Starbucks. It wasn’t as if we NEEDED that diner or that bookshop that got kicked out when YOU showed up and the landlords got big dollar signs for eyes.
In any case, the East Village being the East Village, folks got pissed off at the double helping of corporate java, and a young married couple moved in with a van and started selling coffee out of the back. The wife is a knockout redhead who wears tight tee shirts and denies flirting with customers. With any luck they’ll knock BOTH outlets out of business. But I’m not holding my breath.
Jesus, we need a recession, or Dinkins back or something to chase these damn dot-commers and bonus babies back to the vowel states.
Remember '88 to about '94? The city was empty and people thought it was dying. Those of us who still lived here would happily travel several blocks to find just the right coffee, or, Ghod forbid, get a cup of black from the diner for cheap in one of the “we are happy to serve you” cups.
Anyone who pays Starbucks prices for a damn cup of coffee deserves to complain that the city is too expensive.
The problem is that so many people do it, it drags up the price of coffee elsewhere. The damn truck outside my building is up to $.90 for a large! And I’ve been buying coffee from him for 8 years! Bastard is raising prices at 2X the inflation rate, all because of Starbucks.
Schmucks. Maybe they’ll have to close half their stores in the city like the Gap announced. Serve them right.
Have I mentioned that I quit smoking?