Coffee Shop Warriors

Coffee shop work seems like it might be for the attention (I write this while sitting amidst those whom I'm indicting).

People come to a coffee shop with lots of windows and therefore lots of watchers. But, there are two types of attention they may be craving: The looks of others, and/or the distraction of others.

They may be looking for a place to be passively social. They can be adeep in thought, or work, and honestly fixated with their tasks. But, there remains a glimmer of hope, that people will give them attention, if only for ever-so-brief a moment.

On the contrary, perhaps these same "coffee shop warriors" may prefer the venue for working because of the freedom and distraction that proceeds outside of the gigantic windows that surround them.

The world outside of their corner java shop is the perfect subtle distraction. It allows them spurts of entertainment when a sporadic break silently abruptly announces itself to their brain. They can look up, and out, and find an object that allows them to temporarily wipe the slate clean, and be amused, entertained, bewildered or merely intrigued by some sort of occurrence that is transpiring beyond the glass.

For whatever the reason, these people still better get the work they brought with them completed as intended, or else it is all a huge moot point.