So I’m, per usual, sitting in a Starbucks trying to work on a short story (and alternately laughing at the comments on this page about Alan Moore being a hypocrite) when this older guy at the table next to me says “How are you doing today?”

OK

For those unfamiliar, when you are sitting in Starbucks staring at a computer with headphones in your ears and someone you don’t know addresses you, and that person isn’t asking to use one of your chairs or plug in something behind you, there is only one thing he has in mind.

The stranger is trying to sell you something.

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