"Hello, we are Those People Who Take Over the Coffee Shop for Group Study Sessions."

We are the group of ten to fifteen students from a local university who arrive with our laptops and textbooks, loudly talking and laughing. We generally arrive just before a high-traffic time for the café, and pull together all of the chairs and tables into a massive huddle around which all must customers must step to place their orders. Out of our large group about three people actually order something.

We proceed to study for the next several hours, leading many would-be customers to walk in, survey the landscape, and leave because no more seating is available. We loudly argue using pseudo-intellectual phrases that we ourselves don't really understand, disrupting the casual conversations or quiet relaxation of everyone else in the room. Yeah, we considered going to our campus library or somebody's apartment, but those options just don't have the proper "atmosphere."

There's also a good chance we arrive about half an hour before the coffee shop closes, expecting to stay for a few hours.

It's very nice to meet you.