Arrived at the coffeehouse early for a change. Still didn’t help me get done what I wanted to get done. Need more coffee.
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Arrived at the coffeehouse early for a change. Still didn’t help me get done what I wanted to get done. Need more coffee.
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The music from the church service in the Empire Theater is so loud I had to use headphones in order to hear some music. U2 earlier; “Juno” soundtrack now.
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I just spotted two monks at the coffeehouse. Um, where do they keep their change? Just curious.
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The coffeehouse is a good place to be when the clouds open up for a downpour!
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The guy at the next table at the coffeehouse has been loudly slurping a cold drink for the past five minutes. I want to yell at him: “Hey, dude! You’ve finished the drink! Move on!” … But I won’t.
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Ugh! Someone is running some hardware that is interfering with my Bluetooth! I hate that when that happens!
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The proprietor of empresso a little bit ago quietly asked two young women to leave. They each came into the coffeehouse with Starbucks drinks. Why on this green Earth would you go into a coffeehouse and settle down at a table to drink a beverage from a competing coffeehouse? When invited to a friend’s for dinner, do you bring your own food? When you go to a doctor’s office, do you bring your own physician? How very rude. … And the thing is, I don’t think that they understood the breach in common sense.
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A woman just walked into the coffeehouse – her cheeks are pierced. I just don’t get facial and neck tattoos and over-the-top piercings. I didn’t notice any facial/neck tattoos.
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I caught a glimpse of Hawaiian-print undergarment when a checkout clerk raised her arms to help the customer in front of me in the checkout line. The clerk also had a palm tree/tropical scene tattooed on the inside of her forearm. Now I’m sitting next to a woman in the coffeehouse with a very colorful lily pad/tropical tattoo on her bicep. Ah, the tropics …
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A woman pushing a toddler in a stroller on the sidewalk outside just nearly spilled her entire iced coffee drink on the kid. There should be a law against abusing a beverage like that.
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Timing is everything in the coffeehouse. I’ve been trying to get a refill for the past hour and each time I get up, a new wave of customers comes in to get out of the wind. OK, I think I see an opening. I’m making a run for it!
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OK, this may not be a “coffeehouse observation,” since I made it in a Trader Joe’s, but it works. I was in the Stockton Trader Joe’s in the Lincoln Square shopping center when I was just minding my own business, when I started to smell something absolutely wonderful. For a split second I could not place the smell. And then I did. I was standing next to the Trader Joe’s coffee grinder. I was giddy.
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Some days even a Red Eye – coffee with two espresso shots – isn’t enough.
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The words “free coffee” are almost as good as the words “free golf.” Not as good, but pretty good.
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First-timers to the coffeehouse will wander around for a while looking for an electrical outlet to plug in the power cord to their computers to use the WiFi. Some of them will even trip over the extension cord while doing it.
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How much do you have to love smoking to dig around in the ashtrays of the coffeehouse patio for cigarette butts? Revolting …
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A young, bright, stylish couple is on the coffeehouse patio. She is online and glancing at a fashion magazine. He lit a cigar and is puffing away while also glancing at what I think may be another fashion magazine. To his credit, he is reading a story about Mr. Potatohead. … OK, so it may not be a fashion magazine.
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A day just is not a day without coffee in your day. See, “day” used three times in a sentence of 12 words is a clear indicator that I should have had coffee … on this day.
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Rain is coming down very, very hard! I’m happy for my medium Red Eye (coffee with two espresso shots). It’s helping me stay afloat, as it were. … Oh, wait! The clouds just broke up just a little bit and I can see blue sky!!
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The Exotic Java barista wore a tiara because it was her birthday today. We all should have a reason to wear a tiara. … Um, I mean that figuratively, of course. I’m not sure I could pull of the tiara look, not with my beard.
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My name is Keith Michaud and this is “Letters From Away,” a blog written by a Mainer living outside the comfortable and sane confines of New England. The blog is intended for Mainers, whether they live in the Pine Tree State or beyond, and for anyone who has loved ’em, been baffled by ’em or both. Ayuh, I am “from away.” Worse still, I live on the Left Coast – in California. Enjoy! Or not. Your choice.
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