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Category: Social commentary

Sacred Grounds

By Christopher Winterberg Posted on June 24, 2026 Posted in Just for the fuck of it, Rant, ScatteredNotes, Social commentary, Writer life Tagged with café culture, coffee shop etiquette, coffee shops, coffeehouse, everyday annoyances, humor, local coffee shop, modern life, muffins, public etiquette, rant, remote work, video calls, working from coffee shops, writer life

At what point did the quaint local coffee shop become a roving office? A cranky, funny defense of cafés as sacred ground for coffee, silence, muffins, and being left alone.

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