epitome of laziness

As I am writing this posting, I am sitting in a quiet Ethiopian coffee shop in Tucker, GA where I encountered a prime example of culturally-induced laziness. There are only three people in the cafe right now with an expected arrival of a fourth. This fourth individual was pulling into the parking lot when he decided to call the cafe and order a drink -- from his car!

I would have given him the benefit of the doubt -- he may have been in an extreme rush and needed to get in and out as quickly as possible -- yet, I found there was absolutely no reason to grant such a gesture. Again, there were only three people in the cafe (one of which was the owner), so there was no long line to endure. The drink the guy ordered was an easy one to make, so there was no period of waiting needed. He ultimately paid with cash, so there was no fear of being delayed by the credit card machine.

But the greatest variable in why I could not give the guy a break was that when he finally pulled into the parking space, he took his sweet time coming into the cafe to get his drink. If he was in such a rush -- the presumable reason for why he would call-in his order -- then he would have been a bit more swift in getting his desired drink. Yet, this swiftness was nowhere to be found and/or seen.