at the window

[ljgeoff]

A distinguished looking gentleman with thick white hair and elegant hands drove up to my window just now. He took a look at me and said, "Where did the pretty girls go?"

The Cruise-N-Coffee's are well known in the area for hiring fresh, perky barbie-doll girls, who are told to dress a certain way and wear makeup a certain way. It's kindof a local joke.

I blinked at him. "They're at the Cruise-N-Coffee. What would you like today?"

"So, there's no pretty girls here?"

"Nope. Just me! Would you like some coffee?"

"Yeah, I'll have a tall drip with cream. So, where's the nearest Cruise-N-Coffee?"

"Here you are. That'll be $1.35 -- In Marquette."

"Huh," he muttered, "that's a long way to drive for coffee."

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Harumph. Who needs pretty "girls" when they could look at a gorgeous woman?

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

aw! thanks.

[ailbhe]

You served him.

I think you are more patient than I.

[lovecraftienne.livejournal.com]

Geebus H Cthulhu, how unbelievably rude! You're a kinder woman than I am, Gunga Din. :)

[saxomofo.livejournal.com]

"Hey, we ARE the pretty girls, you old fart!!"

That's Tina diplomacy right there.

I guess I am going to have to hooch it up in the mornings for more tips now. Harumph!

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

Ha! One guy in my nutrition class said that they call 'em "the slut hut" in Marquette. Bleh.

[nmugirl2276.livejournal.com]

What a horny, rude man!!

On another note, where exactly are you located? My friends and I would love to venture out there to support your business. :)

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

Driving into Negaunee, you'd pass the light on Maas Dr (Eastwood Nursing Home is on that corner) and we're at the next light. Look to your left -- Beef-A-Roo/Carl's Coffee/electric transformer/Traffic light. If you pass the Well's Fargo Bank, you've gone too far.

We're supposed to have a big article in the Mining Journal sometime this weekend.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yee-fucking-eeeesh.

[firecat]

$1.35 for a tall drip? That's a lot cheaper than here.

Hm, but it's an even longer way to drive for coffee.

Still...served by a gorgeous woman...

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

When we first opened, a friend of a friend who was visiting from Alaska talked to me about coffee prices. Folks around town thought the coffee at the Cruise-N-Coffee was too expensive, and this friend from Alaska said that coffee in Alaska was cheaper. So I figured that Negaunee was closer, culturally and mind-space, to Alaska than Seattle.

and *blush*

[audreylucero.livejournal.com]

un-fucking-believable. I like to think they get theirs...very soon, if they haven't already, hence they become assholes. Wow. How utterly galling. I am so sorry that he treated you with such disrespect. I wish I could have been there to spit on him.

What a wretched 'person'. Who the hell does he think he is, treating you like a nonentity? My guess is, *everyone* in the service industry is 'lesser' than him, and are therefore of no consequence. So he can say (and DO) what he wants to them. Slaves were treated like that.

I can only imagine how much worse the SO-CALLED 'pretty girls' would be treated by him. Fucking creep. I *did* see report on how those coffee shacks are becoming clandestine sex shops--some of them working topless or in bikinis. How goddamn demeaning.

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I talked to the old manager of the one I've got, and she said that the girls really had problems with some guys. I suppose it'd be a tough spot; told by the culture to be enticing, hired to be enticing, and then, there ya are, enticing. And without the experience or mettle to realize that it's all a game (though a deadly serious game, eh?) I wouldn't want to be in that spot.

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

You are very patient with the mentally ill.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Aww. You're nicer to look at than any barbie.