I may need anger management, but you need common courtesy and tact.

There's nothing I like more than going to a cafe with someone, sitting down, and having a cup of coffee.  It's a chance to unwind, a chance to catch up, and a good time to savor some coffee.  Have you noticed just how impossible it is to do this in some venues now?

My sister asked me if I wanted to get a mocha and I said "yeah".  Since we were right across the street from a Barnes and Nobles, I decided we should go there and she hesitantly agreed and it I just took it that she preferred to go else where but I didn't want to go on the other side of town.  When we got there, I discovered why she didn't seem to thrilled to go to B & N's, the cafe was filled will a ton of people and -every- table was taken.  That isn't so much what bothered me, it was that most of the tables were taken by students and people who had decided to squat.  I kind don't care as much about the students but, for Christs sake, there were hardly any people sitting at a table with a hot cup of coffee or who seemed to have the intent of buying anything.

A few groups in particular staked out tables covered with magazines and books.  One table, there were two older woman, dressed very well, one flipped through books and the other was reading magazines.  By this time, my sister and I had staked out the top of a refuse bin with our plates and coffee cups uncomfortably and mumbling to ourselves.  One of the well dressed women got up, walked over to the refuse bin and grumbled "pardon me" and threw a book were we were sitting.  I thought my sister was going to flip and almost shot the book at her head and I fought tooth and nail to bite my tongue.  She had a fucking table and the fucking space to place it there.  It clearly would have been awkward to do anything because "all the other sheep" were doing it.  Not one of these fuckers thought for a second "I'm here, I'm not going to buy these, I don't want coffee, I should go and let people who are actually paying a price to use these facilities sit down".  No.  They all continued reading or flipping pages, thinning their stack of weekly reading, only to leave without buying most of what they 'consumed'.  Yeah, I consider it consuming a periodical if you go from the cover and read all the articles you want to within it.  When I find a magazine I do this with, I feel happy enough to fucking purchase it.  I feel it hypocritical of the management if they had the audacity to arrest someone for walking out without paying for a magazine and let these fucking inconsiderate fuckwads sit in a cafe for hours on end reading them and not purchasing a single one.

Now with the students: I understand what it's like to need a space to sprawl out and do some work.  I know how fucking tiny dorm rooms are.  I remember needing to cram massive amount of information in my head, writing endless papers, and doing research and I'm ready to share the secret of my academic successes with you: I went to a fucking library! Or: some OTHER LIBRARY! There was only one coffee shop aside from Dunkin' Donuts that I ever could go and have enough space and comfort to do this, but I never did so because I thought it was inconsiderate to usurp precious space from the cafe when I had so little money to support with while that space can be used to draw in better business from people with a lot more money I had (actually, my school started a pilot program to convert various areas into Starbucks/WIFI/study cafes and yeah, it was a hit, but we didn't take that off campus).  Instead I used this coffee house as a refuge from my pursuits.  A place to uncompress and relax and talk with some cool people.  I know, I'm probably different than you are considering I went to a state school, wasn't given a car or the resources to do so, but I still wouldn't have... As long as the temptation to stray from studies presented themselves, I also knew I wouldn't be doing myself a favor.  Another reason I rattle on to you is that the various places I go, where you also squat, some of you make an attempt to make the rest of us feel unwelcome.  You also eavesdrop.  It's fucking creepy.

So, yeah, fuck that. Try being a little considerate for the rest of us humans who would also like to spend "A LITTLE" time to "ENJOY A FUCKING CUP OF COFFEE IN A FUCKING COFFEE CAFE". Thank you.