...the friends gang curiously always manage to be able to get the only couches in the whole place to themselves. Basically on a whole the entire idea of the coffee shop itself ignores reality and promotes a sort of unattainable and utopian lifestyle. For example, it begs the question, don’t the characters have jobs? It seems phenomenal that all the characters always have enough free time to spend chatting their lives away considering that they all seem to have demanding careers and some even have children. This lifestyle is obviously regarded by people in the real world as fantasy, but it still may not stop people from desiring it.

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By: Lisa Alfano