They start kids off with board books. Lots of nice drawings, images and photographs. Colorful and fun. Then they creep in the words. First simple ones, telling what an object is, like “apple” or “chair”. Pretty soon entire word groups are introduced and then sentences. This all at the expense of the pictures. The amount of words gradually increase and the pretty pictures start disappearing. Soon, paragraphs will take up more than half of the page with just a simple drawing here and there. Then by the time kids get into their teens their innocence is gone. No more pictures. If they read a book, all they will be greeted with is text. Booooring … From then on, they will live in a text only world of grownups. The text only world of boring grownups. They will start becoming boring which is sometimes interpreted as maturing. Some will try to read or write books with pictures but these will be futile attempts, as by that time they will have lost their imagination and appreciation for color, pictures and fun nonsense. It is a conspiracy against the little ones if I ever saw one, perpetrated by books.

In the coffee shop there are people. They drink coffee and they surf the Internet. There are bathrooms too. In the coffee shop you can smell coffee. You can also hear the grinder. Bzzzzzzzz. The door open and close when people enter and leave. When people sip their coffee they get a face of pleasure. Yessss. Coffeeee. Everyone is happy in the coffee shop. Everyone is happy because a large picture of two headed puppy watches over them and sees their every move.