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| - William Golding, Lord of the Flies, stranded kids went to beach, where they didn't find a conch, instead they found a doll house. They brought it back into the jungle and played coffee shop, and are playing ever since. That's what it feels like, or sounds like.
The presence of an adult, meaning not age, but maturity, is very much missing, and seems the only thing that POSSIBLY could balance the lack of education, I am not talking about reading lists and math problems (some kids in here are students and may or may not have wealthy parents), but instead the understanding of how one might want to behave as staff working within the hospitality business in order to create a comfortable atmosphere and leave a good impression. Which is the point of it. Some of us want customers to come back. Of course in a town where is nothing to do and nowhere to go people will always come, because there is drastic lack of options and concurrence. That does not make it any better. On the contrary. (Recently I heard someone on the radio say, he is an "enthusiast of the Cleveland Renaissance", I nearly died from laughing. Dream on. But excellent promo!)
Apropos flies, pointed out a fly sitting on a pastry to staff, asked counter girl to get rid of it. She looked at me with a "Why do you bother me with that?"-look, (I bother you with that, girlie, because I had originally intended to eat the pastry and now I am simply not so sure anymore), she asking out loudly: "Alright. Where is it?"
Funny enough, the man next to me had also spent his waiting-in-line-time watching a fly on the pastry, so he pointed straight at it "There!", and it turns out: it was a different fly, whilst I pointed at my personal favourite fly for the morning "There!"
So when you stand in line you can pass time watching flies on pastries, maybe you can even place bets on them with people waiting next to you, but think twice if you feel like angering the kids behind the counter bringing flies on the pastry or anything else you might be concerned about to their attention.
What you must know is:
these children think a saucer is a thing that flies over the skies of Arizona, they have never seen a tea-spoon in their lives (and never will), they do not know exactly how to make coffee, and the mere fact that they are apparently being paid to stand around in a coffee shop does not in any way increase the desire to learn about any of these things ("What for? I am studying to be a dancer!"), because (and this is where YOU didn't know the facts): they OWN the universe.
Or they own Cleveland, or they own this shop, or all together or none of it. Or they live in that kind of mental reality that they seem to THINK THEY DO, which seems to be good enough.
See above: the "grown-up" to set them straight, or fires them, if everything else fails to be effective, is simply non-existent, God knows.
That means: you are an absolute intruder in this dream world. You really should be glad they even as much as look at you, mostly they will not anyways, you do not deserve it.
If they serve you, that is because they are in a generous mood today, but don't draw the wrong conclusions, you are only a temporary guest in here and you don't count, who really counts is them, oh, and do make sure you tip generously, and say "thank you!" with a bow.
I am not sure for what, but do it anyways, it is your best bet, I can tell you that much, next to, of course, not going there.
But if you have never been there you would never be able to imagine it, so I recommend for that reason alone, go and have a look, at least once.
Or make a recording in the garden, where you can hear them through the open kitchen door ripping their guests, bosses and each other off in a jaw-dropping way. Not exactly "quality-driven".
All this is, in a bizarre way, quite funny.
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