{"id":2988,"date":"2008-08-22T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/08\/22\/or-maybe-its-no-different-than-what-some-charity-car-washes-do\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:01:09","slug":"or-maybe-its-no-different-than-what-some-charity-car-washes-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/08\/22\/or-maybe-its-no-different-than-what-some-charity-car-washes-do\/","title":{"rendered":"… or maybe it’s no different than what some charity car-washes do"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the more annoying trends in business\u00c2\u00a0are those “sexpresso” places, coffee houses with female baristas dressed up (down?) in bikinis.\u00c2\u00a0 They sort of seeped along onto our cultural radar like a mildly annoying fungus.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not quite know what the meaning of these places are, and what they say about where we are at this precise moment in our culture.<\/p>\n

I do know that I am glad I do not watch local news, as I understand that there has been some protesters at the newly opened place in this city, and by not watching the local news I am ensured of missing out on the rather easy ratings-grabbing “Up Next” spots, and the fill-in-the-blank formulaic standard on the coverage, which you just have to close your eyes and the\u00c2\u00a0story rolls right through a television screen in your mind.\u00c2\u00a0 I am forced to the issue and know that some protesters have set up shot via the Willamette Week, though.<\/p>\n

There was a story in the news from one of those “sexpresso” places which passed by me — apparently there’s this pervert who has been harrassing some workers at one of the stores, and<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The first time he came to the window Feddock said he was wearing a white bra and white panties and touching himself inappropriately. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Then he came back a second time. <\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He has underwear over his face, he’s wearing hot pink panties now and the underwear that he was wearing is over his face and there’s a little peephole so he can see,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Feddock said. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Feddock and another barista were working around 5 a.m. last Thursday when the incident happened. They tried to get a look at the man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s license plate, but that too was covered up with women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s underwear. <\/em><\/p>\n

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When the man came back a third time one of the baristas took a cup of scolding hot water and doused him with it. <\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kylie opened the door and threw boiling hot water and doused him with it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Charge him and Prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law and publically shame this man, yes.\u00c2\u00a0 But I suspect that incidents like this are, kind of, Occupational Hazards, and there is probably something just a little sad about much of the clientele coming\u00c2\u00a0(reportedly older-middle-aged-men\u00c2\u00a0who are prone to handing out “stripper tips” to the baristas.)\u00c2\u00a0 Sex stores have largely cleaned themselves up, shuffling a bit away from the “Man in the Overcoat with nothing underneath it” demographic and to respectable corners of society and couples and women.\u00c2\u00a0 The creepy guy in the overcoat, with nowhere else to turn to, will gravitate toward a place like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the more annoying trends in business\u00c2\u00a0are those “sexpresso” places, coffee houses with female baristas dressed up (down?) in bikinis.\u00c2\u00a0 They sort of seeped along onto our cultural radar like a mildly annoying fungus.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not quite know what the meaning of these places are, and what they say about where we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}