Spilling Over

Pasqua shook his head, slowly.

It wasn’t good enough that he introduced the coffee drink – a healthy and sober alcohol alternative.

It wasn’t good enough that he established his coffeehouse in St. Michael’s Alley, one of the busiest locations in London.

And it certainly wasn’t good enough that he was providing a place for merchants and traders to conduct business.

And this is how they repay his hospitality? They leave their cups lying around, staining his wood counters? So now he needed to invent something else, something to keep coffee stains off his furniture?

Unbelievable. The audacity of these people.