Coffee Town
1
My name is Will,
and this... is my office.
You've seen us before.
A sea of glowing screens
attached to your
coffee shop like barnacles.
Or... maybe you're one
of us, and you understand
we're not here to be
different
we're here to survive.
I manage a website
for an electronics company.
Mainly updating
driver downloads,
integrating advertising
revenue
with product-specific pla-
But, I do have a job,
so...
I guess I shouldn't
complain.
When I got laid off from
my office job a year ago,
But roommates can make that
difficult.
-I have f***ing aids!
Aaaiiiddss!
- So, I come here...
Coffee Town.
Though, it wasn't always
called that.
A local businessman,
Morris Brown,
wanted to starts a chain
of coffee stores
brown...
he came up with the
ingenious name
Brown Town,
which some took the wrong
way.
So, it became...
Coffee Town.
And it works for me
because,
unlike some people in this
world...
- Do you have another card,
maybe?
- I live within my means.
- Next?
I drive a 1998 Saturn.
I used to have one of these.
I buy clothes at estate
sales.
- That was his church...
coat...
- I get my hair cut at a
cosmetology school.
- No...
...lose yourself. Don't be
afraid to fail.
-Uuh...
And... I use a coffee shop
as my office,
which I love.
house, has comfortable chairs,
and, most importantly,..
people that are bigger
losers than me.
- Where's your dial-up
connection?
- But, like any office,
there are rules to surviving
and they have to be
followed.
The main rule? Always be
drinking.
If you stop drinking, you
stop being a customer.
And the reason I have to
play by the rules... is this
guy.
Sam.
He sees people me as
parasites,
squatters in his house of
free wi-fi.
- What'll it be, sir?
- He knows.
Medium drip... lightly
sweetened...
Sometimes I let him write
it all down.
Then I change it up.
With whole... milk.
I win.
Now I just have to find a
way to drink milk
without shitting my pants.
Another up-side of having
a coffee shop as your office
is your friends can drop
by and hang out whenever they
want.
This is Chad.
We've been friends since
high school.
- Mmm... mmm, cawamel...
I like... cawamel.
Mmmh... mmm
mmh...
- He works in the building
across the street
company-sanctioned smoke
breaks...
even though he doesn't
smoke.
- Coffee Town...
It's amazing that black
people got mad about Brown
Town.
I mean, if 'brown town' meant
them, that would mean it's
they're town.
Right? Isn't that what you
want?
Your own town? Just for you?
I mean, that's like havin'
a... a...
- Water fountain? Just for
you?
-You're making fun of me.
- Oh no, no, no. You pretty
much take care of that on your
own.
- Well, guess what.
I don't think that whole
water fountain thing is racist
either.
- See?
- You have a water fountain
just for yourself.
Everywhere you go, there's
two water fountains.
Now, sure, it's wrong if,
fountain is like...
rusty, or something like
that.
But if it's just
as good as the white person
water fountain...
That's
more water fountains.
- I've stood in line at a
water fountain before.
- No you haven't.
- I know.
like water fountains.
- What?
- Africa...
... is a desert continent.
- That's crazy... it's...
crazy.
- I am all for civil rights.
I'm like the number one civil
rights guy.
But, let's be real.
there's half as many water
fountains.
Fact.
- More often than not,
we're joined by our friend,
Gino.
- Gino
- Who became a police
officer solely to hook up with
women.
Which he's far more
skilled at than, you know,
stopping crime.
-Can I get a coffee?
-Sure.
- Hey, you're new here, huh?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, well, keep your head
down.
There've been some drive-by
shootings in the area
and I'd hate to see that
pretty face of yours gettin'
blown off.
- Oh my god.
- Gino's theory is that
fear stimulates women more
than flirtation.
- It's on the house.
- Look me in the eyes.
You're welcome.
- You're welcome.
- And as far as I can
tell... he seems to be right.
- You guys saw that, right?
Cop talk never fails.
- Aw yeah!
- I'm just glad you didn't
loose story.
- What, are you nuts? That's
my closer.
You open with that and they
associate you with rape.
And not the good kind.
- What?
- What?
- Hey, so was that drive-by
shooting thing bullshit?
- That actually was real,
my friend.
Guy got plugged over in
Norwich outta nowhere.
sh*t.
- Yeah, because you're in
charge of protecting it.
You know, at the academy,
when they asked me if I ever
did drugs
I said "no" to a detective,
and he took my word for it!
I've sold drugs.
- I can't believe you can
shoot people.
- Oh, I can, Will.
- Oh!
All units,
all units.
Possible break-in at
Beatty Towers. Back-up units
requested.
- One sugar's never enough.
You know what I mean? They
should make the packets huge.
Officer
down! Officer down!
- You gonna get that?
- No, it's so far away.
- Is the volume bothering you?
I should have been a cop.
There's literally no
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