Also, I forget, is it a douchebag or a douchenozzle who commits the federal crime of defacing U.S. currency and then documents it on his own blog?

For someone who describes himself as a people person (as Mr. Cho did in the March article in the Post about his tax evasion issues), Mr. Cho shows reckless disregard for the economic interests of his employees through his mismanagement and his very likely criminal mishandling of tax receipts. I'm all for letting small businesses thrive, but the market needs to shake out those who threaten customers and those who collect sales tax and then pocket the taxpayers' money.

I agree, Mei-qi. Bagels are close to my soul, and it kills me to see people make them into pizza or slather peanut butter on on them. But hey. It's THEIR RIGHT.

I, by the way, had a similar experience at Murky Coffee (minus the angry dollar bill incident). It was terrible, because like Jeff I really wanted to support independent coffee shops over Starbucks. But I never went back, and I was pleased when Murky Coffee was kicked out of Capitol Hill. (Although still concerned that the city has never received its money from the owner!)

Angela, sorry, but your blog item is way off base. Jeff's rant was funny and self-deprecating and it doesn't sound like he threw a "temper tantrum" at all (though I think he would have been justified!!). And who goes online to complain about stupid shit that happened to them in the course of an afternoon? Um, these days, just about everybody! Read a Facebook "status update" lately?

The blogger is obviously also embarrassed by the attention this has spawned -- so much so that he wisely closed the comment section for this topic.

I think the Murky Coffee owner's bizarre and violent comments -- which by the way take Jeff's blog wildly out of context -- combined with the owner's inability to pay his taxes, puts him and his shop in a very, very bad light. Murky coffee, shady business.

Apparently, this experience is about as universal as getting bad service at the DMV given the number of armchair commentators who have weighed in on his blog and others. I think you're in the minority in believing that "you just don't argue with the barista." In my humble opinion, once you've purchased a legal substance, no one other than law enforcement has the right to instruct you in how to consume it. By the way, you might want to, I don't know, read/conduct interviews/do research before commenting on someone you don't know and on an incident that you didn't witness.

This City Paper...not Arlington City Paper.

But it is hard to feel sorry for Murky or have any respect for the owner.

What about the money owed to DC? Where the hell are all the taxes we paid to that asshole owner who fucked all of us over.

I guess he always had Arlington to run to...

Ummm... everyone? It's practically in the constitution as our god-given right. Hell, it appears to be your job.

Are you really going to defend Mr. Murky? What kind of dumbass business owner actually validates that kind of criticism with a written response? If the customer is a dweeb, then the owner is a psychotic tool of the first order.