I should have posted this yesterday, but I can’t resist writing up a little incident that happened yesterday. With one child in Costa Rica for a missions trip and another one flitting around from one friend’s house to another, David and I found ourselves with a free afternoon. We decided to head to the coffee shop in the picture for a time of reading and relaxing.
When we arrived at this Starbucks, which is one of my favorites, the first thing we noticed is that none of the regular baristas was there, and the two who were there had the music totally cranked. It was trance music, which is - in my opinion - hard to read to! Then we went to sit down and discovered a guy sitting in the middle of a triad of the soft chairs. This presents a problem: one side or the other and we’d have joined him. He was reading “How to Read the Bible,” so I kind of wanted to strike up a converation. But David and I didn’t feel like flanking him so we sat at a nearby table.
Before long two older women came in and sat on either side of our reading friend. Because the music was loud (or maybe because they were loud) they started talking at the top of their lungs.
“What stores do you want to see?”
“I thought we saw them.”
“No, there are more. What do you want to see?”
“How do I know unless I know what is here?”
Within 30 seconds (no exaggeration) our reading friend packed up, David and I packed up and even the guy across the room working on his computer packed up. It was mass exodus at the coffee shop. The two ladies, might I add, happily switched comfy chairs and settled in.
No redeeming value here…I just thought it was funny how quickly the room can clear out with the wrong environment!
May 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Rachel and I are headed to Costa this summer with a team from our church. Put some info in the blog about the trip!