Nearly everyone I know in Athens is in some way connected to this coffeeshop — Jittery Joe’s. If you were looking to lessen the old six degrees rule down to about two degrees, in context of Athens, Joe’s would be the way to do it. Sadly, my friend Keith no longer owns the company and it’s a shell of its former self — franchises abound, the service is worse than Starbucks and the annoying Christian guy with a guitar seems to ever-present. But the coffee is still good and my old friend Seth manages this particular location which saves it from being a total loss.