A little birdie lets us know that Greenberry’s Coffee and Tea Company is opening a new store in its existing location and is looking to build something up 29 North.
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- Barracks Road Greenberry’s Coffee Robbed
- Greenberry’s Missing Lids and Cups?
- Former Milano Main Street Market Space Will Be Coffee Shop and Yoga Thing
I have to ask a somewhat related question. Has anyone noticed an unusually high number of flies in that place? The first time I went there (we’re talking years ago), there were so many flies in the store that I was grossed out and never went back. I’m wondering if that was a fluke or if there are still lots of flies in there.
I know it sounds silly, but I hate flies.
What do you have against my flies?
this time of year, there are flies EVERYWHERE! my husband commented the other day about how not even on our trip to Nicaragua did we have these many flies !
Flies! It it ain’t biting or welting I don’t want to hear about it.
Piggy has the conch! Piggy has the conch!
We might have to live here for a long time! Maybe the rest of our lives! If we are stuck here until we get old, then we can’t go on acting like kids! We’ve got to be sensible and make things work!
Whoever holds the conch gets to speak.
@5 B’Yo, can you please make a mix cd entitled “Piggy has the conch!”? Seeing that in the comment feed made my morning…
Actually, they are to be opening a resturant, not store in current location and the same further up 29N. Not sure how as they are out of room as it is and unless they move to another space at Barracks there does not seem t be room for a kitchen, which can often consume 40% of floorspace. Hood will be no big deal. Is anything next to them losing their lease?
I really don’t care what they open there, as long as none of the employees get sick leave. I prefer mucous drippings in my pan au chocolat.
/le snark
Well, I suspect that someone in the biz has already done that to you anyway.
And why would one suspect that? Me specifically? How nice.
/was just trying to be funny. have a juice box.
Am I crazy, or isn’t there a Greenberry’s in Dupont in DC, and I think Florida?
Yeah! In Florida, and in Dupont. Weird..anyone know what their deal is? I’d love to know how they get that cardboardy taste into their coffee.
This is problematic.
A couple fun facs (or approximations to fact), speaking of the current Barracks location:
1. At any given instant after 5pm, HALF the clientele is made up of members of Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous, either waiting for their meeting or head-to-head having just come from their meeting. If you listen REAL carefully, you can hear them talking about God in hushed tones, and telling their same-sex sponsors they LOVE them—this is super-touching—no joke—because it’s nice to see broken people getting their sh*t together. Come there often enough, and you can see the American Dream, as these folks get clean and become as loathesomely materialistic and miserably work-a-day as the rest of us.
2. The idiot greed-conflated merchant-owners have applied for and i think been granted an ABC permit, with the intention of turning the place into a beer and wine-bar, to supplement their coffee—the precursor to this is the introduction of OATMEAL (WTF) and all the crazy useless baked and packaged schlock crowding out the counters. (What do the erstwhile juicers do when it’s a wine-bar—are they allowed there?). They also appear intent on selling sandwiches and soup. They also switched to skim-milk unless you ask for the white kind, to imitate Starbucks.
3. They sacked the wonderful waynesboro potter and painter INGA, who worked there for like a thousand years and was the life and joy of the place, daytimes. This after having sacked the uber-hot tall brunette JESSE a while back, who was the one who would get all the gals to dress up in pirate-hats and so on, making life fun for patrons and barristas/barristos alike. I am given to understand a bunch of others got sacked as part of this CORPORATE RENEWAL (reeks of starbuck-ery management technique—is there a NYT Bestseller on the subject?), and that at least one VERY GOOD MAN quit over this in an outrage. Why nobody has made protest signs demanding her restoration to employment is beyond me. Not like people who spend time there have lives or things to do.
4. It is one of the few places in town where you don’t have to deal with Downtown Mall boors. The crazy freeloading idiot-politico loudmouth Bosnian-Jesus is NEVER there. Limpets, barnacles and sponges are more rare.
5. More lipstick-lesbians than Mudhouse, fewer butch rump-wranglers and pretentious wankers than Higher-Cubano. The only Mall-Freaks you have to deal with is the Hogwaller guy and the 20s-lawyer asshole, mentioned elsewhere on this site.
6. Grad students, being poorly groomed, sad-looking, sleep-deprived, starved-looking, poorly dressed, are virtually indistinguishable from the FIRST-STAGE NOT-YET-QUIT alcoholics/narcotic-junkies in the programs mentioned above. This creates a nice hegemony of appearance in regular patrons.
7. The girls walking from Banana Republic to the ShoeStore (name forgot) are delicious. No joke. Awe-inspiring.
8. If this idiot wine-bar thing goes through, they’ll rope off the patio by law, which means fewer tables, more idiots in patronage, and an end to the possibility of sitting and reading or studying there–oh, because they’ll also prob have live music late-nite. Who ever thought it was possible for a privately-owned coffeehouse to become LESS APPEALING than any given Starbucks by owner-choosing.
9. There’s a certain excitement in the place by the fact of it being incessantly robbed at knife-point. Also, the average patron will see a dozen car-wrecks and ensuing shouting-matches/fisticuffs by sitting outdoors and keeping eyes glued on the cretinously-designed seven-way intersection just in front of it.
10. While the coffee is generally believed to suck, who cares—coffee is just the rent you pay to sit there for hours. What martinet, fey, socia-elite wanker gives a damn about what coffee TASTES like.
11. and so on.
I like the cut of your jib aquatic mammal feces…
12. On a particularly hot day, the wafting odors of grease sludge that is poured into the storm drain behind Ruby Red Apple Tuesday Lobsterbee’s wil grace your old factory like putrid atmospheric pudding. Won’t some eco crazed biofuel nazi step in and cart this sludge away in their converted passat?
13. While you will not be graced with Bosnian Jesus, you will be able to observe the Croatian Ricers as they lounge outside discussing the latest modifications to their 93 acuras, which now more resemble Transformers than actual cars. If you are lucky, accompanying them will be the Rolly Polly Sexual Predator, who, since he does not have a modified car, spends his time aggressively staring at anyone who is not in possession of a penis.
can we make that a full post?
It’s so funny, people thinking there’s life existing outside of the Downtown Mall. I have heard of this “Barrack’s Road” but it is far and I wouldn’t go hang out there.
@14, why is someone pouring that grease sludge away, that’s valuable biodiesel right there. Who among us drives a biodiesel car? Someone should go get some low-cost fuel!
And those Acuras are frequently just Hondas with Acura adornments, not real Acuras which are um, just Hondas with, um, Acura adornments.
/certain my 12-year-old Ford is single-handedly causing global warming
14. Ethan will not be there, as there is the word “green” in the name and he fears being swindled.
to #15
i am techno-ignorant. help yourself if you see value in doing so.
i fear it may be too cranky and distempered to really do credit to the site and its regulars. in fact i may MYSELF be too cranky and distemepered to, ETC., and hope you guys will tell me when to go the f*ck away.
to #14
heh-heh.
and Rolly-Polly used to be Mudhouse regular, now perhaps dividing time, or maybe because some sortof kiddie summer-camp lets out daily at Grenberry’s at 5ish, is there for the pickin’s?
to # 19
‘pickins’
‘greenberry’s’
Your cranky and distempered nature surrounds me like a comfortable blanket.
And I am glad that somebody knows who Rolly Polly is. That dude has always given me the mega-jibblies. I can’t imagine if I were a woman. He is only matched in his skeeziness by that stange little fellow that’s always around the DT Mall. He kinda looks like a slightly melted armenian elton john, with the thick glasses, the seventies cocaine clothes and members only style jacket… That dude is always mackin.
to 21
Armenian Elton John is righteous, Bra, if i’m thinking of right guy—corbusier glasses maybe? Quite a walker, quite a walker? never spoken with him but he feels ok.
Rolly Polly is …. eeeeuuuuhhh. But i love the Serbs/Croats/Boz-es at Greenberry’s.
sneaking out for the day—leave y’all to carry this on as far as inherent absurdity allows.
never spoken with him but he feels ok
I’ve never felt him.
But i love the Serbs/Croats/Boz-es at Greenberry’s.
I agree.
Otterdammerung, I’d like to know what kind of people you care possibly stand to have in your field of vision at a coffee shop. Besides lipstick lesbians and other young femhots. Ironically, 20s Lawyer Guy wrote a novel in the 1990s from just this whinge-snark point of view. He took a well-known local character and made up a derisory story about him getting date-raped by a guy in Belmont. Anyway, 20s Lawyer Guy made fun of everybody, including debauched spiritual richies living on Albemarle estates, and – this is where he reminds me of you, maybe you are him – hatefully disdained people who *work at home and walk to the post office midday.* The horror!
…you can possibly…
i *am* a typso
femhots! getcher femhots! femhots here!
Colfer
Sorry–not my intent to make fun of anybody here. Was just being clumsily categorizing and descriptive, trying to play along.
Exactly the sortof feedback i was asking for, though, when i said to tell me if my general tone or whatever is inappropriate to the website. I’ll keep my mouth shut on your advice and let niceness prevail. (somebody read that guy’s novel? Why? Why?).
How do i cancel my user-name and account–i’m not tech-saavy–and if i do can i at least still read these great chains? i like reading Belmont Yo’s take on things, and like the idea of a forum to replace what once was a more immediate and personal one at Miller’s and in the local papers which seemed at one time to actually BE local papers.
Fun while it lasted, though and thanks.
Colfer:
then again, here’s you in an article talking derisively about the poor gentle hardworking folk in Waynesboro, talking about big tits, and talking about lesbians—so i’m not sure where i mis-stepped, other than to make fun of pretentious people who COULD be less so by choice and seem to do everything possible to stand-out by appearance not substance. I never said an even gently unkind thing about the innocent and hard-working lower-classes (i don’t even like to USE that expression, ‘lower-classes’…), only about scenesters who invite–INVITE–comment and judgment of some sort of other by BEING scenesters.
Here’s your screed:
“Riding down by the auto parts store in Waybo, with a skinny girl in a big Rita Heyworth bullet bra riding shotgun… but I digress. If you’re going to write about Waynesboro being a different world while not coming off as a snob, you’re still being a snob– unless you mention the lesbian in the waiting room.”
dude, you don’t need to leave! And you certainly don’t need to “unregister.” You can read all the content for free and keep your user name to comment whenever you want.
What mc said.
otter, we love you dude! come back! this is the internet and you have to snark with a grain of sea salt
and let niceness prevail…
Oh that will be grand. Then we can rent sanitized movies at blockbuster and eat pop corn without salt. I cant wait. No. Really.
Stand firm, oh product of a thousand cracked oysters. You definitely add to this site.
And by the way, colfer’s alright, he just hits the mescaline and cognac a little hard from time to time when things get boring in his secret lair deep beneath carter’s mountain.
OD, don’t listen to Colfer, that dude is a nutjob with his own special language.
Why I live kittens, by otterdung.
1. Kittens represent a fundamental innocence, lost in our contempo-culture.
2. Kittens are not lesbians, which i like but which are not to be spoken of favourably, evidently, and kittens don’t wear lipstick.
3. Kittens wear fur, which is bad, but then again they can’t help it–like alcoholics and people with tribal tattoos who grew up in NoVA can’t.
4. Kittens don’t write novels making fun of local self-obsessed non-entities who gained their local character status by (word on street) constant drunken seductions by lying, marital infidelities both taken and given, statutory crimes (i don’t like the r*pe word), loud-mouthed drunkenness and bragadocio and general lowering the tone of downtown while preying upon it by making it a f*ck-pit and not a community of arts-culture and youth ful ‘rebelllion’ for the sake of substance.
5. Kittens have soft paws, which can’t type mean things
6.Kittens don’t go to coffee-shops, so don’t have to see, nor feel obligated to comment on, the decay of decorum in contempo society and the decay of substance-over-appearance
7. Kittens would NEVER make fun of debauched richies living on estates, because it’s not nice to do that, and because debauched richies living on estates deserve in kitten-land to be coddled and sucked-up-to and given every benefit, praise and laud, because they ARE richies living on estates and might get their feelings hurt when, because of a surfeit of time, spend much of it reading little blogs and local—what kittens would never CALL novels
8. Kittens hate 20s Lawyer Guy just as much as Colfer; because that guy would never get near a kitten because it might get fur or kitten-spittle on his sissy bowties. And anyone who wears a bowtie probably didn’t intend guy-to-guy stuff as negative, but rather was writing it in favorable fantasy, because neither kittens nor that guy appear to think homosexuality is bad, as Colfer does when charcaterizing mention of it as derisive (or was it derisory?). But then again, kittens haven’t read the novel, so they are talking out of their butts in replying to this.
9. Kittens love people who stay at home and go to the post-office (why is that a bad thing and where do the quotes come from?) because then kittens have more company for more of the day, and because the post office issued those American Panther stamps a while back, which are sortof kittens
10. Kittens would know how to get off this damn website without feeling obligated to make a last comment in their defense before going to kitten-heaven and leaving you fine people to carry on in what is, in kitten’s minds, a highly admirable endeavor.
SHIT, it was “Why i LOVE kittens…” —got me flustered.
I love kittens and I love @34.
And anyone who wears a bowtie…
“Bowties are the pierced eyebrow of the republican party”
~david sedaris
Did you see that time Jon Stewart was being interviewed by Tucker Carlson and insulted his bowtie? Fucking pricless. Lemme find a linkypoo.
At about -6:53
@38: Thanks for that. Hilarious.