PC Emergency

Shifty staff, slow PCs that hardly ever work, a clientele consisting mainly of life’s leftovers, and extortionate prices for hardly any internet time, PC Emergency really doesn’t deliver on any level.
It doesn’t need to however, as quite amazingy it’s the only internet café in Glasgow and has saved my bacon on a couple of occasions, so it’s best just to grit your teeth and put up with it.
Though I’ve never been sat next to anyone browsing through hardcore porn, the guy next to me once was on a website called «British Spanking». He looked a bit like Manuel from Fawlty Towers as well which made it even funnier.

This «internet café» replaces an old address further down St Vincent Street, but sadly the place has not improved since the move.
It isn’t right to call it a «café» given that the only food or drink availible is from a slow vending machine. I have only really used the place for Internet access and not tried any of the other services on offer, though I don’t expect they are much better.
The prices — £2 an hour, £5 for an all day pass — are to be expected, but you would also expect at the very least computers that had working mouses and keys that weren’t stuck down. Plus the seats are uncomfortable and the computer screens are very far forward — a health and safety disaster.
But the very worst thing about this place is the sorts of people who you have to share company with. I’ve had them all sitting next to me — smelly jakeys, people bellowing down mobile phones, weirdos who talk to themselves, neds listening to very loud rave music through their headphones, you name it. Somebody at work even told me they had to share company with a person who happily surfed through hardcore pornography.
I’ve only used this place because there isn’t much of a choice if you urgently require internet access and there’s nowhere else to go. Avoid like the plague.