California Multilogue Three "Something Regular"

"Why do we have to have our coffee in a quiet room, where it's not that quiet, actually, there's the jabber of the employees who sound almost antagonistic with each other, the price paid for being polite and obsequious with customers?"
"Well, the carpet is red and spotty and hasn't been steam cleaned since that earthquake that made that bridge go wobbly like a world-sized sine wave and because it was the first place we saw when we got off the BART."
"I wasn't asking for a direct response."
"And also because the circular marble tables mismatch and have patchy stains on them. Sticky puddles from sugar and milk and the employees who have so much paradoxical tension about them won't be cleaning them anytime soon."