A Night on the old Writer's Cafe

Writers Cafe hasn't always been perfect. The story below highlights the frustration writers went through one year just to read a poem or send private messages.

If not for friendships, I (and probably others) would have left long ago.  

Side note...Robbie is actually an attractive female on the site.

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OK, I'm on. I'm surprised it came on so quickly. Hmm, no messages. Let's see if anyone read my new one. Click...wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...nope. What about new reviews? Hmm...nope, but I could have guessed that anyway.

Everything seems pretty normal. Let's see who's online. Click...wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...yeah, there's a bunch of people. 

This girl looks good. Click...wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...NO DATA RECEIVED. 

Damn! I'll go to Grooveshark and listen to music while it clears up. La dee da. Hmm, let's check out some Kansas. Yeah, this new live version of "Howlin' at the Moon" is awesome. hm, hm, la dee da. 

Let's go back to Writers Cafe and see if I can get on. Click...wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...NO DATA RECEIVED. UGH! Back to Grooveshark. OK, how about some Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak," yeah, haven't heard that in a while. Ahh, nice! hm, hm, la dee da. 

Alright, that should be enough. Let's try it again. Click...wait, wait, wait...Ah, it's back on and went right to the girl's page. Let's just glance at her bio: "I'm a girl who loves to write; in fact, it's my life."

Okay, girl who loves to write, let's check out this poem and see what you've got. 

Click, this is a true story:

You fkin' broke my heart

But I can't let you go

I wake up every fkin' morning

Wishing u were here  

Fk, I say to myself

What the fk am I here for?

If I can't have u,

Sh*t, this life is useless  

If you didn't f@#kin' leave,

I would have...

That's too much cursing for me. It sounds like a typical kid who just discovered cursing so she's using them like newly discovered toys. I would venture to guess everyone else her age found the same toys. I think I'll move on to someone who looks like they can write. 

OK, let's go back to online writers. Click...wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh man, this site is really slowing...oops, there it is. Alright, let's see who else is on. This one looks good. 

Hold on, message from Robbie. Click...wait, wait, wait. Hello Robbie, how are you? Blah blah blah…what did I do over the weekend? Well, I blah blah blah. How about you? Click send...wait, wait, wait, wait...NO DATA RECEIVED. AHHHH!

MAN-OH-MAN! What the hell is wrong with this site? Okay, let's go to YouTube and check out some funny pets. Here's one: a cat who scratches the dog's back. LOL. 

Let's see if I can get back on now. OK, back on. I guess Robbie got the message. Let's see if I can go back to writers online and do a review while I'm waiting. This girl looks good, too. Her bio is a mile long; let's see a poem.

"This is about a relationship; ignore any mistakes."

Ignore any mistakes? Was she in some sort of hurry to get to English class when she wrote it? This is a writing site, isn't it? 

Let's go to someone else...

This guy looks interesting. Click...wait, wait...hmm, I'll try this poem. Yeah, I like this one; I'll do a review. "I really like this one...blah blah blah."  

Click...wait, wait, wait...message sent. Great! And there's a message from Robbie. Click...wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...NO DATA RECEIVED.

Maybe I'll get off for a little while. I'm getting too frustrated. 

A half-hour later...

Okay, Let's see if I can get on. Yup, I can. There's Robbie's message. Click. Yes, Robbie, I agree...blah blah blah. So, what do you think? Send message...click...wait, wait, wait. It worked! Should I try writers online again? Hmm, let's try. Okay, good. Who will I review now?

How about him? Naw, he's way too good; I can hardly ever understand what he's talking about anyway. 

Well, I'll try someone in my friends list... Click...wait, wait, wait..."NO DATA RECEIVED. 

Ten minutes later...

Let's try this one...

This is about blah, blah, blah. Nice! Sounds good:

All I've ever wanted was punctured by regret

I've lived a life of blossoms and chives

And yet I've made the bet

If I hadn't gone through the pain,

I wouldn't be going through this sh*t.

Forget it! Let's try someone else...

Let's try this one:

The moon hung like a ball on a long gossamer string,

Begetting silver topetta milk in obscene oracles,

Reflected by Staphylococcus aureus.

Too much; let's see someone else...

This one's great! Let's do a review:

Wow, great flow; blah blah blah. Send review...NO DATA RECEIVED.

This sucks! Let's get off this crap and come back tomorrow.

The next day...

OK, I'm on; I'm surprised it came on so quickly. Let's check to see if there are any new reads on the new one. Click...wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...nope. And what about any reviews on anything? Hmm...nope.

Let's see who's online.

I'll read some of this guy...click...NO DATA RECEIVED.

The hell with it...I'll just watch TV.

Author's Note

This was written when the site was experiencing lots of problems.

Update: Poem was revised sightly. Too many "Okays" I never noticed. Might need more tweaking, don't know. Good for now. (1/17/15)

Reviews

[Pax]

why, why, why didn't i stumble on this one... it was too entertaining and well observe in a funny way the frustration we(wc users) experienced... haha... my smile was wide and big while reading this one... the thought that i also experienced the same problem, glitch - come back later, glitch again - watch youtube, then it come back again... send long message to a friend - dam* - network error... ahh... sometimes you just have to shout, but then again move on...LOL...

highly entertaining my friend...

[Relic]

Thank you Pax. I'm glad you fond it entertaining. :)

[Dye]

Well, I'm glad I wasn't here for that. It's bad enough waiting for this site to accept a comment. I loved reading through this, I could feel the frustration. Actually, I feel like I was able to get some good insight about WC by reading through some of your work. But also reading though this I thought "F*ck, I'm that girl." LOL Thanks for the insight.

[Relic]

Thanks Dye, glad you enjoyed the insight. This is a great site but the servers are filling up and everything's slowing down to a crawl. I guess this read will never get outdated. :)

[Gray Witch]

OMG -- too funny - too true ....

[Relic]

Thank you Grey Witch. :)

[kimmy]

This was so funny to me, I hate when this happens to me any time..This made me laugh through, and you know I always have a problem of what I want to read. there is many and then I don't have all that time to read them, and then what if I don't like it and I already started it..lol
thanks for the laughs on this one.

[Relic]

Thanks for picking it to read, I appreciate it.

[kimmy]

Of course, I liked this writing...I ran into the same problem...I didn't know what to read :)

[Frieda P]

LOL you gave me a headache ;-P

[Relic]

I gave myself one while writing it. haha :)

[Clayton Bardwell]

I guess this is funny because it's so damn true. Forgive me for entitling a story similar to this. My is different, it has a lot of gramaticalar mistakes,. 8,9,10. Ok thatsw enough.

[Relic]

Thanks for the review and I forgive you. ha

[LA Lorena]

Ha ha! It seems they have finally improved this is the past couple of weeks. Hopefully, it continues. I was finding that more often than not, I could not get on here, and when I did, the WC just ate my reviews and posts before I could get them posted. Glad to know it wasn't just me, and that the frustrations were shared! Cute write!

[Relic]

I myself was relieved when the site improved its servers for a more faster experience in cafe land. lets hope it continues this way for a while. Thanks for reading.

[Kenneth The Poet]

After I read this, I think I understand why I turned off my read requests. I think your account of a night on WC is accurate. Doesn't work, try Grooveshark, still not working, try Facebook, et al. A very descriptive write as well. You can really tell who the good writers are and the poor ones after reading a couple of their pieces.

Nice job.

[Relic]

Appreciate the read, thanks.

[Baby Ricochet]

"Reflected by Staphyococcus aureus" Now that's funny. Great story and I don't review to many stories. I've have self inflicted ADD and self diagnosed Tourettes syndrome. That's why I text everyone instead of calling them.

[Relic]

haha, Thanks for reading and your review.

[KAOlmsted]

Oh my God you've just described my entire day...after day after day :-D This is outstanding. I hope you've read OWC by Baby Ricochet; he's awesome. By the way, thanks for mentioning me in this poem, you know, "No, she's way too good, I can hardly ever understand what she's talking about anyway." *LAUGH*

;-)

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[Relic]

Haha Thank you kimmer so much. Yes OWC was the inspiration for me to re-post this and it is written very well indeed, you can find my review in there somewhere.

[KAOlmsted]

*facepalm* I just now saw you wrote that up there in the description...duh kimmer...I don't always read those...clearly ;-)

[Relic]

That's okay, I won't tell anybody. lol