To Think I Saw It On Line at Starbucks

A story from my journal in 2006

J. Paul Gotti

Before reprinting my story of dealing with a random lunatic in Starbucks, please allow me to address a question I always get.

“Liam, do these things really happen to you? Did a woman really ban all male temps from working in her office after you worked there for a day?”

She sure did. There’s not much more to the story than that.

“Liam, be honest, you didn’t really cut your face because you decided to shave before a job interview in a stall in the Men’s Room of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, right?”

Of course I did.

“But you didn’t really show up for the interview an hour late, shirt and face both smudged with shaving cream and blood, and then get the job?”

Not only is this a true story, but it is a ridiculously long one. I have to condense it to make it readable as a Substack post. And with that in mind, enjoy this 100% true story, factual as reported:

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September 18, 2006
When you’re not, in the strictest sense ”full-time employed” and you spend your days in…