After 1.5 years of spending 3 to 8 hours a day studying in Starbucks, I have a tremendous backfill of stories, sightings, and musings that have been mostly shared through "the circuit" (an e-mail chain with my friends.) I've finally been persuaded to post these to the general public, so here I go! The addition of my iPhone is going to make this whole blog thing a lot easier!
So most people know I want to meet my future husband in Starbucks. Therefore, I'm very attune to my surroundings and how people meet. Until today, I had never witnessed people actually meeting for the first time in Starbucks. J-Dates, Match.commers, and seemingly innocent friends becoming something more over their iced coffees have definitely crossed my line of view, but today was a first. An actual boy-meets-girl sitting next to him leading to conversation leading to a date actually happened in front of my very eyes. It went something like this:
Guy: "Hey that sandwich looks really good. Where did you get it from?"
Girl: "Oh next door. They gave me so much turkey I know I'm going to end up throwing half of it out, but yes it's definitely a good sandwich."
Guy: "Yeah I am always looking for a good sandwich in this part of town. And that one looks pretty darn good. Do you work around here?"
And so it goes. They chatted for over an hour about everything from apartment-hunting to their jobs to their families to wine to good restaurants... which led to... "here's my card. We should go out sometime." They then proceeded to plan a Sunday night date, and I guess they couldn't wait that long because they then decided they both had nothing to do that afternoon (doesn't anyone work?) and walked to Soho together.
I actually witnessed a girl get picked up because she had a GOOD LOOKING SANDWICH. Here I was thinking my iPhone would attract guys.... when really, all I needed was a turkey sandwich. Who knew?
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