Juan Valdez is rolling in is grave, wait, is he dead yet?

So since it's so windy, I wanted to get coffee at the overpriced Walter Library only because it is directly across the street from my office giving the coffee a better chance at staying hot during the journey. The cafe wasn't open at 7:00am like the little sign on the door said. Luckily, there was a nice, big clock right inside the door so I could check to make sure I wasn't losing my mind. I thought that might be a possibility since the security guard was sitting at a table next to the door watching me try the locked door over and over again. He could probably see the machinery working inside my head as I tried to reconcile the locked doors with the big clock and the little sign but nothing was making sense. He finally got up and walked over to tell me that people had called in sick this morning and the cafe was running behind. Okay, fine, I understand that. People get sick and that's just the way it is so I was willing to stand outside and wait for what the guard described as a few minutes.

He was actually correct in that he was given the 'okay' to open the doors a few minutes later. It was now 7:20am and my little taste buds were screaming for some acidic, crushed seed from a coffee plant. I walked up to the empty counter as what I guessed to be a manager-type person stood behind the empty counter. He asked what I wanted. I said "a medium mocha please" to which he replied that he didn't have that right now. I then asked for a medium regular coffee but again he was to retort with a negative by stating that he only had decaf brewing currently. How about you just tell me the one thing you do have to save us a few precious moments of our lives? Huh?

My understanding at the call-in-sick plight was diminishing in light of the fact that he was clearly lacking in skills of which he is supposed to be managing on a daily basis. I understand how a Hospital Administrator may not know how to perform heart surgery but they at least have an appreciation for what it would take. A coffee cafe manager should be able to make coffee from the machines on which he judges other people's worth. Maybe this is a good time to stop drinking coffee.