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Streeter: Beached Wail Edition
Overheard by Robin Hatch at the Beaches Bake Shop two Sundays ago. A girl in a Baby Phat coat and Apple Bottoms jeans and a guy wearing Sean John and Fubu, both with “seemingly inauthentic Brooklyn accents,” are paying for their coffee.
Barista: That will be $2.79.
Girl: That’s so cheap! Much better than Starbucks.
Barista: Oh, we’re loads better than Starbucks—the food is cheaper and better…
Guy: And there are too many gay people at Starbucks.
Barista: Hmm.
Guy: …And they all hit on me, and I can’t blame them, but like…
Barista: Hmm.
Girl, to Guy: You can’t just SAY that here. It’s not the Danforth, okay?
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