I just logged off after doing some work for my old company and thought I had better check in. I'm in a cafe in small town, Ontario, listening to a nice variety of music and sipping a Chai Latte. I'm not really a cafe crowd person. Well, in fact, I'm not really a crowd person at all. If I were here without my computer I would feel completely out of place. What a geek! I think.
The name of the cafe is called Factory Grind. It used to be an old shoe factory that has been renovated and re-opened as a cafe. Brick walls, tall ceilings, poor lighting, but great atmosphere and wonderful music. I know the new owner because she buys her coffee from the place where I work. At this moment she serves only about 4 kinds of our coffee but I'm going to try and talk her into introducing a new flavour each month.
OK - now a kid is slurping his hot chocolate. Sounds like an asthmatic gasping for air. Hmmmm.
The owner is behind the bar shooting us looks. Time to close. She needs some rest. She's been trying to stay open until 9 at night but by the time she cleans up and goes home it's 10 or 10:30 then she's back in at 5:00 Not enough time for life in between. I don't know how she does it!
Anyhow. I'd better go and let her close up and get some rest.
Night friends!
2 comments:
My dad used to slurp his tea like that sometimes. I think he did it just to be funny. He'd look at me and grin as he knew he could get away with it.
It's amazing how those little locally-run cafes can stay open. Those entrepreneurs must really need that business to survive. Or maybe they just like being a slave to their business, as opposed to a boss.
I see a lot of people working from Starbucks when I go in for coffee/tea sometimes. If you ever go to a Starbucks and want something nice, try a tea misto with two bags of Chai tea (and a shot of cinnamon if they still have the regular stuff and not the cinnamon dolce) - it's not on the menu and is cheaper and less sweet than their regular Chai. In my opinion, it's better. But that's just me, and now you know my latte factor. (I've been reading a lot of David Bach the past few weeks)
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