After I had cleaned the mess and locked up, I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking I wasn't alone.

　　A few days later at about 2:00 in the afternoon, the busy part of my day, I was in my room typing and heard a commotion in the front. I hurried to the door thinking we were being robbed. I opened it and there were customers lining up in front of the register covered from head to toe in coffee foam or soda. I looked over at the machines and they were spraying foam and soda everywhere! I rushed over to it and unplugged it, now sticky and wet myself. I apologized for the inconvenience and offered everyone a free breakfast for the next day. I closed for clean up and called a repair man. He said there was nothing wrong with the machine and it was running fine.

　　Later, after I had cleaned the mess and ate supper, I was sitting at the bar drinking milk and balancing my checkbook when I saw someone sitting in the corner at one of the tables. I stood up and said, "We are closed. How did you get in?" He didn't answer, but stood up and walked toward the bar. I reached over toward the kitchen knives (which I keep on the underside of the counter for cooking), but when I looked back, he was not solid anymore, but more of a wisp of a shadow figure. As I watched, the closer he got, the more he continued to fade. By the time he reached me, he had vanished.

　　Since then, my coffee shop has become a 24-hour "haunted coffee shop," where people drop by for supper, hoping to see the ghost.

　　我把地上打扫干净，重新锁好医药箱。我睡不着了，总觉得这里还有其他人。

　　几天以后，大约是下午两点钟，一天中我最忙的时候。我正在后面的屋子打点资料，突然听见前面一阵骚动。我赶忙朝屋门跑去，以为是有人抢劫。打开门，只见在计数器前排队的顾客们从头到脚满是咖啡泡沫和苏打水。我定睛观看那台机器，发现从里面朝四面八方喷着咖啡泡沫和苏打水。我赶忙跑过去拔下插座，当然也弄得浑身粘乎乎的。我向顾客们道歉，并且答应转天免费为他们提供早餐。我打烊清理卫生，也打电话叫了人来修理机器。但是他却说机器一切正常运行良好。

　　把铺子整理好以后我吃了晚饭，随后我坐在吧台上喝牛奶，一边检查最近的收支状况。这时我见有个人坐在角落里的一张桌子旁，于是我站起来对他说，“我们已经关门了，您是怎么进来的？”他没出声，但是站起来朝吧台这边走。我赶忙伸手去拿刀子（我一直放在柜台下面准备做饭时用的），当我再转回身，他已经不象刚才那么清晰可见了，而是变成了一小束影子。我定睛观看，他一边朝我这边走，一边渐渐地越来越模糊。在他来到我跟前的时候，完全消失了。

　　从那以后，我的咖啡屋成了一家“闹鬼咖啡屋”，人们络绎不绝的来吃晚餐，希望能和鬼魂见上一面。