Work-from-cafe Aficionado Gifts

“Work sucks — my corner office keeps getting smaller.”

Give us a drink that says "we're in love." Oh no, not again. Today's Special. Latte + 1hr web $12.50. We're back together. We're celebrating. Give us my darling pudding pie's favorite drink. A cinnamon mocha latte with a peppermint lollipop swizzle stick. Excuse me?! That is not my favorite drink ... dear. My favorite drink is a cinnamon mocha latte with a spearmint lollipop swizzle stick ... dear. I am so sorry ... snookums. How could I have possibly been so heartless and thoughtless as to con

'Any chance of a ploughman's?'

"Eewww! It still makes a lousy cup of coffee!"

Low Overhead Incorporated...'Where everybody works at home!'

"My depression is currently being treated with a combination of prescription medication and low-fat frozen yogurt."

'Hold all my calls - and get dressed. I hate being reminded I work from home.'

So what's your back story? What do you do? Marketing. Downtown. House of Java.net Cybercafe. I'm an investor in The Infant Restaurant Critic. Heard of it? A baby goes to a restaurants and cafes and tried their food. If he likes it, the eatery gets a glowing online review. If not, curtains! I'm an investor. I'm on the ground floor! Did you only ask about me so you could then talk about yourself? I hear you. You're asking about me. Don't know what's worse: Men, high-tech investors, or the combinat

"In addition to the menu, we have a few specials on the board."

Storefront reading "Net 'n' Nosh (Formerly Books 'n' Java)"

"And from now on these staff meetings will be conducted online. You people are a breeding ground for germs."

"I see on your application you'd like to work remotely."

"I wish he'd hurry up. My back's killing me."

"Do you validate?" "What? No, there's no parking lot. It's just street parking. And that's free." "I know. But I came in to get a coffee yesterday morning at 7:59. The line was so long that I didn't get out of here till 8:02. Apparently you had street cleaning that started at 8am." "I'm not following." "It was your long line. The least you could do is validate the parking ticket they gave me." "Get out."

Normally, we just write their name on the coffee cup.

'It's high time to make the boss clear that I'm the best employee ever!'

'Get back to work, Phillips! You're supposed to take your coffee breaks at the office, not at home!'

"In the future, please order a small black coffee as a petit café noir."

Being home based the highlights of Colin's day was ringing his office based colleagues to check on how their commute had been that morning.

"It's great to be back. I was going a little stir-crazy working all across the country from home."

What the Person Sitting Next to You at Starbucks is 'Working On'

"You love gloating, don't you?"

Confession. Terrible confession. My favorite kind. By day, I work at this caf

'He says he's a 'Sandwich artist' and he refuses to work in honey mustard.'

Are we a bunch of losers? Who are you talking about? Me, Randy, Sadie, even you Uncle Mort – all of us cafe regulars. We've been hanging out at this place for years. I've been working here two decades. Do we have nowhere else to go? More powerful even than inertia: Any momentum killed by an uncompromising nap regimen. Zzzz.

"Since she started working from home I prefer going to the office."

"I made him the wrong coffee, so I hit control Z, but it didn't work. Maybe I should just make him a new coffee."

"Sorry, I'm the Amazing People Watcher. I'm going all I can."

"Do you every worry that the world's ending and we're just sitting here waiting for brunch?"

Barista

Is there anything you want to say to me? Get back to work? I pay you too much? I can hire a migrant worker for half your pay and he won't complain to me in English? And he probably won't be loyal to you and this cafe for 20 years. Twenty years. Twenty years. It's your 20-year anniversary? I'm assuming that's the extent of your acknowledgment of this momentous occasion, and I should not expect a cake. You may have a day-old cruller for half price.

Randy, do you think I'm stuck working here, working at this cafe? Why do you ask? Maybe I could branch out, test the waters, see if I've got the courage and capacity to try something new. Are you saying I hang out at this cafe because I've got nowhere else to go? What just happened? If I just said something aloud, it had no weight or meaning.

Man sees eatery, 'Mom's Cyber Cafe', below it reads, 'Formerly Mom's Diner'.

'And this is how we make the house blend.'

"Don't get too comfortable with 6 feet of personal space."