Mike Williams - Starbuck Squatters

Have you ever gone to Starbucks and realized everything that takes place around you? Some people are students, just trying to get away and study. Other people are there for business meetings and then you have the average Joe who is just trying to get out of the house and hang out in a real life social networking location: Starbucks!

My Condo was flooded last week because of my upstairs neighbor’s defective washer. Approximately 100 gallons of water flowed into our wonderful two bedroom condo on a 105 degree afternoon. As the days go by and we argue with the insurance company, I realized I can’t work in this damp carpet stench. I did what any other person would do when looking for somewhere to work, I went to Starbucks. Good thing I have AT&T U-verse for my home internet. Starbucks has teamed up with AT&T which means I get free internet.

4 hours and two Iced Tea drinks later… I decide to leave my little niche at Starbucks and grab lunch. I head back to “my” starbucks (I’ve taken ownership of the location after being there the whole morning)... and wham! All the seats were taken!! I had no choice but to look for another location... fortunately there were dozens of Starbucks in my location... 4 coffee shops later I finally found one that was not full.

I make the usual scan of my enviorment to pick the best place to sit and see this interesting guy... He was literally set up a whole editing studio. I walk over to take a peek (pretending like I am looking at the seats around him) and see that he is in fact editing movies. Looking around his table, I also noticed he had BBQ sauce, Ketchup, Robitussin cough syrup and a box from 7-11 with some left over fast food. At this point, my curiosity was piqued... have I seen my first actual Starbucks squatter???

I head over to the barista and politely inquire if the gentleman is here every day. She confirmed my assumption. Now I’m thinking... you at least have to purchase something from the store to stay there right? So I ask the barista if he ever buys anything. She tells me no! He’s already got his set up, so he doesn’t really buy anything! My next question was why not ask him to leave? The barista lady said, per their district manager... as long as he’s not bothering anyone... they can’t ask him to leave.

Here is the question of the day. Do you have a Starbucks squatter near you? Please share your story! What crazy or unusual things have you ran into at Starbucks? How long is too long at Starbucks?

Blogger.com: http://therealmikewilliams.blogspot.com/

Linked In:http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=34234174&trk=tab_pro

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MikeWilliams562

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealMikeWilliams

Email: therealmikewilliams@gmail.com