Cafe Realneo - a parable

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 16:14.

 Over the last few weeks there has been a bit of friction between different users and different viewers at Realneo.   You can observe this friction in some of the comments at Realneo, and if you look closely you can see it in who hasn’t recently been commenting or seen at Realneo.

We all want our coffee served just the way we want it, don’t we?
 
And if your morning coffee has cream and you ordered it black – the start of your entire day just sucks.
 
And of course, not everything that happens, happens on the public face of Realneo.   Everyone on Realneo has a “contact” which allows private emails.   
 
It has been an interesting learning experience for me.  
 
For example, an email came from a west sider who accesses  Realneo under an alias.  This person really, really has come to like  Realneo because for them Realneo has always been served very hot, with one sugar. The person liked what Realneo served so much they had a bill scrunched up in their outstretch palm which was headed into Realneo’s tip jar.   Wow!   Good Coffee here and appreciative customers!
 
But a problem arose -  Realneo’s coffee brewing pot thermostat stuck – so the temperature changed - so that when Realneo was served for a few mornings  very hot but with 8 sugars this anonymous person with the crumpled up bill in the palm of their hand right above the tip jar broke down to the point that they would never go to Realneo for coffee ever again.  Period.  So they won’t be reading this.
 
That was one interesting learning experience.
 
Then there was a friend of mine who accesses Realneo both under an alias  and under their real name.  Under the person’s  real name I had coffee several times with the person – they took their coffee with cream and honey. Not a problem.   Realneo can do coffee with cream and honey.  YUM!  Sometimes we even had coffee away from Realneo – I remember once we had coffee at the real person’s house and a few times we had coffee at my house.  
 
That was friendship!
 
But the YUM coffee drinker had a schizoid  alias.  Kind of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde relationship.  For the sake of clarity, let’s call the real person Dr. Jekyll and the alias person Mr. Hyde.   
 
OK
 
Mr. Hyde didn’t like the fact that Dr. Jekyll was being served coffee with cream and honey by Realneo.   So  Mr. Hyde sent Realneo an email and asked a Realneo barista to offer coffee with Angostura Bitters – in fact, as I recall now, Mr. Hyde asked the barista to feature Angostura Bitters at Realneo.
 
Of course Realneo has a lot of baristas – everyone at the REAL.COOP Coffee shop is a barista – so someone, I can’t be sure who it was, put a few bottles of Angostura Bitters out.  Some were placed on the counter next to the cream, sugar, and honey, and some were put on the tables.
 
A few morning’s later, I was sitting with my laptop hooked up to the wifi, when what looked to me like my friend Dr. Jekyll, came into Realneo and saw the bottles of Angostura Bitters in prominent sight.
 
Apparently that was too much. Dr. Jekyll lost it.  Or was it Mr. Hyde who lost it?  Now I am confused myself.
 
Anyway what happened next was that Jekyll/Hyde grabbed the first bottle of Bitters they could get their trembling fist on, snapped off the neck with their teeth, and threw the razor sharp bottle at my laptop screen. 
 
BOY, OH BOY.   Lucky the thing just missed my eye.
 
This kind of passion from my friend Dr. Jekyll, who now also looked to me like Mr. Hyde, was another interesting learning experience I have had at Cafe Realneo.
 
My take away?   Everyone "gets naked" - loses their self control - so you can see clearly who they really are at Realneo.  
 
And that’s pretty cool. 
 
 

 

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which barista is the UFO?

Submitted by Tim Russo on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 17:08.

or the moon sculpture?  

this site is beyond farce.

realneo is my cup of tea with everything

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 21:35.

realneo is my cup of tea with everything-

jeff your realneos policeperson and most police are

spiritual advisers social workers problem solvers

conflict resolution solvers other species rescuers life

savers surragate family and on and on-

this is dedicated to jeff buster and we are what are

name is mostly - jeff busts us all - jeff puts his life on

the line for us realneo- jeff isn't a fallen hero and lets

keep that way - i experienced about 2 hours of jeffs

careing - rarley have i experienced such caring from a

stranger- for about 5 years jeff has kept the peace on

realneo because jeff has met with many of the coop

members jeff my not carry a gun and badge - jeff

carrys the badge of courage and jeff doesn't even

know it - laura susan debra norm henery jileen genita

jeffs roldo -any place roldo hangs his hat has to be

divine and all others ed hauser may have been

murdered for truth to power-

its a miricle that realneo.us is still here after 5 years

its a miricle that  i yogi are still posting to realneo -

folks do you know the percentages of the realneos 

that got sabataged assinnated destroyed etc. by the

non-truth sayers - ask roldo how many times they 

attempted to kill destroy etc him-

i beg everyone don't take realneo.us for granted-

don't take jeff for granted-

the golden rule-

as you well know in some parts of the world we all

would have been dragged out of our homes and

tortured and murdered imprisoned-

as you well know in some parts of america that has

happen also-

realneo.us is our country state city county world

universe and beyond-

yogi guy

__________________________________________

FALLEN HERO'S

BY

SERGIO MUNQUIA

"I HAVE BEEN WHERE YOU FEAR TO GO...

I HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU FEAR TO SEE...

I HAVE DONE WHAT YOU FEAR TO DO....

ALL THESE THINGS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU.

I AM THE ONE YOU LEAN UPON...

THE ONE YOU CAST YOUR SCORN UPON...

THE ONE YOU BRING YOUR TROUBLES TO...

ALL THESE PEOPLE I'VE BEEN FOR YOU.

THE ONE YOU FEEL SHOULD HAVE NO HEART...

THE ONE YOU CALL THE MEN AND WOMAN IN BLUE...

BUT I AM HUMAN JUST LIKE YOU. "   AUTHER UNKNOWN

 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Submitted by ljhg on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 21:49.

According to some, we all have multiple faces that we show to different people:

             The son shows a different face to his parents than he does to his girlfriend,

             a man shows a different face to his drinking buddies than to his pastor,

             a mother shows a different face to each of her children.

 

             We have all had two faced bosses, and many of us have had two faced friends.

             So, who knows what lurks in the hearts of men?

             Isn't it as often reported that the ones that "go postal" are the nice quite ones?

 

Maybe one should learn to respect others, and try not put them into "boxes" too quickly,

as it can be most uncomfortable when they molt their skin, thereby appearing different.

After all, wasn't the beautiful butterfly once an ugly caterpillar?

"Life is change, how it differs from the rocks!" - Jefferson Airplane

 

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871

i just sqeaked through

Submitted by noner on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 07:15.

 finals so i haven't been posting much, barely even reading. worse yet, both classes required portfolios - 10 times worse than a straight up written exam.

and i'll go one further - both classes were taught by cock-less wonders that almost veered me into being a radical feminist again... steamy enough for you?

rubber necks

Submitted by lmcshane on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 12:15.

  Everyone loves a crash.  Mr. Russo, you crack me up.  We all may fight, anonymously or not, but it's definitely worth checking REALNEO every so often for the crazy pulse that drives NEO.  Dbra--I L-O-V-E you!!  Jeff B, please give Chimera a break as he was only exploring his feminine side :)  
 

Pay Taxes--Build Cleveland--Be Proud

Submitted by lmcshane on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 12:17.

  Believe it or not,  NEO has much to learn from Rwanda.