‘We are vaguely employed and have Bluetooth devices attached to our heads. We need more places with a pleasant midcentury aesthetic where we can cram for exams and have appointments with dicey accountants, hideously polite catch-ups with exes, and meetings with Internet dates and micro-business clients. We need more and more “third locations”–spaces between work and home–where we can read magazines and stare at our laptops, pretending we are getting things done in our lives because we aren’t sitting at home doing the same thing’

15th Avenue Coffee & Tea, Seattle

“I should have said, ‘Excuse me, but I'm a regular customer here with a registered Starbucks card and I spend over $1,000 a year on coffee, beans and gift cards. Therefore, you should probably trust me when I say it's a refill’ ”

Plus there’s a settlement with the Ontario Human Rights Commission that this U.S.-centric article fails to mention