Incident at Au Bon Pain 04/21/10

Morning, I am searching the bathroom. Enter the nearest store - Au Bon Pain. Three ugly women, hispanic and black are sitting at the counter facing the street. They address the cashier who serves them a menu as 'mylady.' They are full of themselves and very important looking. They anaylyze and discuss customers and their attire, manners and such. They announce to me that restroom is for customers only. I inquire how much is an apple. '89 cents' answers cashier who is half here half there, paying attention to three ugly ladies who unabashedly make comments about me. I ask her how much for banana and trained by management or greed ladies burst into laughter, apparently acting as if to ask the price of a fruit was something unheard off. Clearly, the only way to win grace from these 'ladies' is to spend money like crazy, but why would anyone normal care to earn their affection or to impress them? The cashier answers through her teeth. I remark on that and she becomes rude. It isn't a totally entertaining story without properly described details of what made the encounter particularly nasty and ill-tasting, but nonetheless, ladies and gentlemen...Au Bon Pain, fave of FDNY ambulance, yet again!