Life imitates art*

"Everyone In Coffee Shop Billing For Their Time" The Onion, spoof article, February 2006.

There was a full page article on page 3 of yesterday's Times (that I can't track down online) entitled 'Coffee shops beat the office grind' that suggests that a lot of people take their lap tops to Starbucks et al and work from there, paying a few quid for coffee and the Wi-fi.

* More accurately, humourists are far quicker to spot trends and stereotypes than the MSM.