steve kwan user experience designer

Steve drinks his tea for free

(May 12th, 2006 - 3:57PM)

I go to Blenz to grab my green tea. I'm at the till, and I overhear one of the baristas asking another, "Do you want to be the bad guy, or should I?" They're talking about a gang of kids hanging out at the front door, and they're trying to decide who should be responsible for asking them to move. Punk kids hanging out by your front door are bad for business.

I tell the barista asking the question that I'll ask the kids to move if I get my tea for free. He agrees. So I go outside and hang out with the kids. Do I tell them to move? No. But within a minute, they move on their own. Maybe I creeped them out.