Baristas bare too much

To the editor:

A bikini coffee stand recently opened a new location near Trunk and Bogard roads. This is about a half mile to Colony high and middle schools, in the same location a coffee stand was robbed at gunpoint in the last year or so.

When I drove by on my way to work, I saw a full-body-length glass window with a girl in a bikini sitting there. The position I saw her sitting in, in my opinion, was suggestive. I saw way more than I wanted, or wanted my kids to have seen. I really hated my daughter seeing that — yes, she too could grow up to serve coffee almost naked.

We are fortunate to live in a world with free enterprise, and I can admire a person trying to earn a living, but please conduct business in an appropriate area, not a residential area with two schools and a church within a half mile, and right on a school bus route.

When speaking to the owner of the business, he stated that he was not “displaying girls;” however, the Facebook page for his business features new baristas and not new coffees or beverages.

I will say to anyone out there who believes this to be harmless, look to my hometown of Everett, Wash., and its battle with bikini baristas. It became pasties and thongs, and now some are being charged with public indecency and prostitution.

I do not believe this is happening now in the Valley, but where will our lines be drawn?

Missy Titus

Wasilla