More electronic devices in use than people using them.<\/p>\n
A hip priest takes a quasi-confession from gender-conflicted parishioner. They fist bump.<\/p>\n
Dissipated writer tries to reanimate.<\/p>\n
It’s sunny outside but a few customers carry umbrellas; Oregon is dead.<\/p>\n
Shop only plays Patti Page or Patti LaBelle.<\/p>\n
Lots of posters for animal rescue events.<\/p>\n
Everyone is incredibly tall.<\/p>\n
A regular always wears yellow or orange denim skinny jeans.<\/p>\n
Two women daily occupy the corner window and write computer code for health care conglomerates.<\/p>\n
The shop introduced square coffee cups and the customers revolted.<\/p>\n
One man always walks in eating a cucumber.<\/p>\n
The shop has a certain beloved transient who serves as a mascot and alleviates everyone’s conscience about doing nothing about homelessness.<\/p>\n
One older man’s flatulence is the shop’s inside joke. Luckily, it doesn’t stink; it only toots like a horn you might hear during a logging operation.<\/p>\n
There is no plot, only milieu.<\/p>\n
Not a single customer knows how to change a flat tire.<\/p>\n
The female barista wears vintage tennis skirts all the time and wants to meet a modern-day Bukowski or become one herself.<\/p>\n
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