“You decide you cannot fault these people for making you angry and miserable, but you feel crazy: half mad at yourself, half mad at these cheer-leeches.”
So says Lucy Schiller in her essay on being a barista in San Francisco, the first in a weekly series of original long form essays appearing on The Riveter Magazine‘s site. Lucy’s relationship with San Francisco has appeared on the Rumpus before as a Last City I Loved.