July 21, 2005
Starbucks vs Heroin
While waiting for my Starbucks coffee this morning, I noticed that there was this young tattooed white girl standing nearby drooling onto the mints at the register. She appears to be one of the variety of heroin users that populate the north end of union square and pass through this starbucks with some regularity.
I am in general pretty libertarian about alsmost everything but it feels like there is clearly a problem here. She's been in the store for about 20 minutes and has just walked out with a frappacino that she purchased. Its not like she isn't a customer. Its just that she makes the other customers nervous and disrupts the normal flow. Starbucks can't kick her out because she is in fact a customer. She is doing no harm other than drooling on the mints. She looks very young but is probably old enough to be making these sorts of decisions for herself.
That being said, everyone in the store recognized that there was something wrong with this girl They just had no idea what to do about it and perhaps the correct answer is in fact to do nothing and just wait for the girl eventually to figure out she needs a frapaccino and then leave.
Its just not sitting well with me....
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