Seven Types of Customers that Still Frequent Internet Cafes in 2019
Internet cafes are, surprisingly, still alive and well, and they attract very specific customers. I know that because I work in one of them.
Table of Contents
- Seven Types of Customers that Still Frequent Internet Cafes in 2019
- The Addicts – Millenials
- The Nerd
- The Only Girl
- The Erotomaniac
- Drunkard Brawler and Sexist
- The Aggressor-lamb
Drunkard Brawler and Sexist
These two types deserve a shared category, because those are the two types I will never like. The Drunkard Adventurer is comparatively rare. The regular Drunkard – that's a more popular sight. Usually, however, gentlemen coming under the influence are quite amusing. They browse some memes or other funny stuff, laughing out loud; when they leave, they make a joke, a complement, maybe even tip (but they're usually broke). The brawler comes in all exasperated. Angry at the whole world. Sits for a while, falls asleep with his head on the table top. When the time is up, he does not intend to leave.
Shake him all you want – he'll just mumble something and carry on sleeping. Eventually, he will leave. Before that, something will usually make him snap, yell at me, the fine establishment I work in, some innocent bystanders, or the cruel rules governing the society. Recently, for example one of those types got incredibly angry upon learning that he has to pay for the energy drink. Strangely enough, he mostly blamed Ukrainians.
I'm not particularly keen to use my pepper spray (which is always at arm’s reach). Besides, I mostly avoid confrontation. But not with sexists.
The Sexist comes in, sees a woman, and promptly starts the festival of insults. What's this, a woman?! Among computers?! Electronic equipment?! Therefore, before he tells why he even came, he will immediately note that everything he says he will say like to a child, so that the woman is able to understand.
HOW SCISSORS WORK
It's great, as a woman, to recognize that not every manifestation of sexism is intentional. Some guys just act in certain standards, patterns, habits and do not think about the fact that the world has moved on. You can try to disabuse them or not. But there's no bad intent on their part.
One day, a customer came with a complicated order. Seeing how much work I had, he just helped me to get it done. But these are rare cases. And then – after seeing me use the scissors (and I have to note I use them correctly) – he went "You have to start cutting from this point, deeper. Do you know how scissors work? Look here, a lever mechanism." Well, did he have bad intentions? Nope. Was he mansplaining? Maybe a bit. Does that make him a bad person all at once? Wrong. At least I have a story to tell you.
