To the Manager of a certain coffee establishment who reamed my husband out after a casual exchange of customer/wait staff banter. You accused him of being totally negative and wished that just once he would say something positive. Are you freaking KIDDING me??? I think you need a hearing aid. Or a conversation filter. Or some SOCIAL SKILLS! My husband is the most positive person on the planet. Negativity is not his thing. Trust me, I know. I don’t know what crawled up your ass that day, or why you picked my eternally happy husband to whip with your misery, but boy, did you blow it. You just lost a regular, positive, paying customer for your over priced coffee.You are rude. You obviously missed the class on customer relations during Coffee 101. Take your Prozac, honey.
—Equally Happy Wife
This article appears in Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2009.


Well, all coffee sold at cafes, restaurants, diners and fast foods places is vastly overpriced, compared to the price you’d pay if brewing your own. We’re paying for convenience. So I’m not sure what point your husband was trying to make.
too bad some of his positivity didn’t rub off on you
they were prob just having a bad day