This is the third time in three days that a kid actually walked up to me inside Starbucks, while I'm on my laptop doing things I do on a laptop.
Last Saturday at Starbucks Shangri-la Mall, I was chatting with Giff over YM and making a joke about phone sex, like if you had a phone where should you put it, then Giff says probably in the usual place but not if you have a Nokia E71 because that's not really right but then again what's right about putting an electronic gadget in an orifice ha ha, when this little boy (who looked like he just learned how to read) stationed himself over my left shoulder and. read. my. messages. ALOUD.
I was still in the middle of being completely mortified when he came to the part of Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. The next line he would have read was something that would probably require therapy to get off his tiny little brain. I shooed him off, and closed the MacBook. Daggummit.
The next day at Starbucks Megastrip the lighted apple attracted a little girl. She got off her chair from the next table and walked over to ours, her grubby little hands on her hips, and demanded what's going on. I was Plurking at the time, but I made extra special effort to glower at her. She was an extremely annoying kid with her bowl haircut and privileged attitude.
And now I'm sitting here at Starbucks Technohub in the cornermost table just minding my own business, when another little boy in camo pants entered the coffee shop and made a beeline for my table. Becoming all too familiar with this scenario, I looked at him while he looked at a Word document trying to find "a number five". I asked him what's up and where are his parents, slacking off? He went away immediately. I didn't actually say the slacking off part but I don't want kids around my laptop. Especially kids I don't know. Look what happened the last time Joaquin appreciated my MacBook.
Now the same kid is pressing his face on the other side of the glass pane beside me, the better he can have a look at my screen. What's wrong with these little people, I wouldn't know.
Where's Technohub? These kids are just bored. Never experienced it. You probably have the most interesting laptop in all Starbucks, that's why. Last time I was in Starbucks, we sat on stools facing the inspection area of Shang. We even watched parts of The Reader, including the R rated parts.
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