My Instead: I spent an entire morning in a Farmington coffee shop, Bauhaus Kaffee.
Farmington, Missouri seems to be my
second home these days since Annette and I have been together. But that’s okay because I
love spending time with her. She had to work Saturday morning and part of the
afternoon, so I asked her if there was a coffee shop that I could visit while
she was working. I really needed to catch up on some blogs and, unfortunately,
Annette’s house doesn’t have much of an internet signal. I do much better blogging
with the internet at my beck and call. She knew just the place to take her
starving-author girlfriend.
We got on Highway 32 going west to
Farmington. She led the way to a coffee shop called Bauhaus Kaffee. Instead of
her just dropping me off, I drove my car so that I would have it in case I
wanted to go back to the house. That didn’t happen. I spent the entire time
that Annette was at work in that coffee shop. The owner was probably beginning
to wonder if I was homeless. Heck, I was beginning to wonder it too!
During my stint in the shop, I enjoyed
a cranberry nut muffin and a cappuccino, read a few magazines, Facebooked (of course),
people watched, and, oh yes, I wrote a blog. It was kind of okay to while away several
hours without having to do something or go somewhere. Admittedly though, I felt
a bit lonely and antsy by the 4th hour. I was ready for some company
and the Bauhaus patrons were not cutting it. When Annette walked in, it felt so
wonderful to see a friendly, familiar face. I was ready to go.
It’s weird how I spend so many hours
alone at home, but this felt foreign to me. Was it the strange place and people
that made it so? Or was it because I
wasn’t sick or injured and it’s difficult for me to laze around so long. Or was
it a combination of both?
Maybe when I’m 80, I’ll try this
again. But for now…I’ll take my coffee to go!
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