Spend enough time in coffee shops and you’ll see the darndest things. Now I know Decatur/Atlanta area isn’t New York or San Fran, but we’ve got our fair share of God’s most curious creations.

Sure, I do spend a fair amount of time in coffee shops so I have a big sample size. (Re the time spent, a few months ago I realized that I had an accidental streak going of 10 days straight with coffee shop stays.) So amidst packing boxes and cleaning and packing boxes and looking for a job, a few coffee shop highlights:

• Not sure how I feel about people having Skype or video chat meetings using headsets while in coffee shops. Totally messes with my public/private space assumptions. If they’re not too loud, I’m cool with it. Otherwise, get a room.
• At Starbucks this week I witnesses what has to be the most picky customer in the history of the world. She ordered her drink, her SPECIALIZED drink in a process that took at least 10 minutes. She had to have an employee assigned to her and she walked her through every step of the enormously complicated beverage (without even any coffee in it!) Bless the Starbucks staff for accommodating her (or did this just affirm her narcissism?)
• Fun fact: Megan asked me to marry her in a coffee shop.
• I enjoy people who bring their instruments to practice/play at coffee shops.
• I’m not a fan of PDA, not in coffee shops, not anywhere I can see (…or hear)
• Job interviews in coffee shops always strike me as a bit, umm, unprofessional (that said, I’d love to have any interview these days)
• Photo shoots in coffee shops are ok I suppose, just a little disruptive.
• But even after all these curious experiences I’ve yet to witness my dream: someone coming in and shouting, “This round’s on me!”

image by Kostya Kisleyko