Yesterday, I spotted a guy walking down my street playing a banjo. Today, a guy with a faux buffalo head hat – complete with antlers – just walked by the coffeehouse. There really is something in the Stockton water. It might be booze.
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I believe that the conversation going on at the table next to me is reducing my IQ by 10 points each and every minute it goes on.
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Good God! Panic in the coffeehouse! The WiFi went down for a whole five minutes! Emergency services very nearly had to be called! But things are back to normal, whatever “normal” is now.
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Green Day “Nimrod” … Loud. … Because a Bozo in the coffeehouse is talking on his cell very nearly at the top of his lungs. He must be nearly deaf or the person on the other end of the phone is because he is NOT using his inside voice.
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A woman who looks very much like Joan Benoit Samuelson just walked into the coffeehouse. Cool! … By the way, Joan Benoit Samuelson is a Maine native and woman’s marathon legend. She won the first ever Olympic woman’s marathon in 1984 (Los Angeles) just 17 days after arthroscopic surgery on her knee. She’s a big deal.
Her website is at http://www.joanbenoitsamuelson.com/.
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I was saying the other day how you just do not see Greek fisherman hats anymore. Weeeeellll, I’m sitting in my backup coffeehouse and in walk two women and both are wearing – wait for it – Greek fisherman hats! Makes my day!
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Kinda weird. The coffeehouse pretty much emptied out a little while ago – just me, another patron and the baristas looking for patrons to caffeinate. But things are back to normal. Lunchtime beverage consumers are arriving as they should – in a steady, orderly manner. Drink on!
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A woman just walked into Exotic Java and talked as if she had been sucking down helium! I swear to the coffee gods that she talked as if she was a cartoon character.
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I might be hanging out at the coffeehouse a bit too much. A guy just came up to me and asked: “Do you work here? You look like you work here.” … Yeeeah, I might be at the library a bit more from now on.
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Hip-hop being played just now in the coffeehouse and I’m pretty certain a good bit of it was in French. … Or Haitian Kreyol, perhaps. … This is what I know — I cannot understand most hip-hop or rap lyrics in English, French or Kreyol.
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Two women just walked into the coffeehouse with balloon flowers. What type of soil do you use for balloon flowers, anyway? Full sun or shade? How often do you water balloon flowers? I’m not gonna even ask about balloon flower food. …
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I’m brainstorming a possible business idea – Emergency Mobile Coffeehouse. Pick up an old ambulance. Pull out the medical equipment – maybe not the gurney – and put in an espresso machine, coffee urns, folding bistro table and chairs, etc., and then follow the most popular roach coaches to stake a claim on the coffee trade. Could even show up with the siren blaring. … It’s just an idea.
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An old Norton Commando is parked outside next to an old Thunderbird. Cool.
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Forgetting that you’ve fully opened your coffee mug can lead to coffee on your chin and the front of your shirt. I know these things, because they happen to me! Why, oh, why? …
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A woman in the coffeehouse is using flash cards to study. I didn’t even know they still made flash cards.
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I think the WordPress metrics must have gone a little haywire yesterday. It registered 302 visits to my Coffeehouse Observer blog yesterday. That’s pretty good for a tiny blog I barely promote, but I’m not letting my head swell. Before yesterday, the blog metrics registered about 1,366 visits in the entire year since I started commenting on the things I see in the coffeehouse. I have no illusions that somehow the world suddenly “discovered” Coffeehouse Observer. It must be a glitch. But a fun one.
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[Seriously, anything this big really should come with a lifeguard. – KM]
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I just spotted a woman at the coffeehouse pull out an 8-inch long propane grill lighter to torch her cigarette. … And I think perhaps her eyebrows.
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I am still recovering from the anguish that was yesterday’s game. The Jets team that was expected a month and half ago finally showed up in Foxborough … to play the Foxborough Community College Patriots. The Pats were awful yesterday – Brady throwing behind everyone and an INT, two dropped TD passes, fumbles, poor special teams play – and the team did not deserve to win. I will drown my sorrows in coffee! … When does spring training being?
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That Dave Brubeck Quartet is just right for the coffeehouse. Oh, yeah!
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Letters From Away 