Ethnography

Ethnography

October 26, 2014

Let's Knit?



I wish it would be cold weather already so that I could enjoy my Chai Tea when I order it. It’s so hot outside and this bipolar weather is really starting to get annoying. Anyway I walk into the cooler coffee shop and get my order taken by the employee who reminded me of Jared Letto. So Jared kindly took my order as well as the other people behind me and then I sat down in the only available table. I hate this seat because everybody can see what I am doing no matter what side of the table I am sitting on. I was about to start typing when a group of girls left and I quickly took their place. Now I am sitting with my back against the wall and am able to watch people secretly. To the left of me is an older woman reading a book and to the right of me there are two girls in conversation. One of the girls has yarn… next to the girls at another table is a lone girl on her laptop. On the couch across the room is the same older lady who was here last Friday towards the time I was leaving and I even remember what she ordered because she got the same thing I did; a Chai Tea. She slowly takes a sip as she reads her book. She looks comfy. The older lady to the left of me just tore what she was reading in multiple pieces… strange. She noticed me noticing. A girl just walked in an exclaimed, “I’m sorry I almost stole this from you!” (It’s one of those tape things you use for boxes.) and Jared goes, “Oh no it’s fine!” The girl smiles and quickly leaves the shop. One of the girls from the yarn table gets up and bids her friend goodbye and states that, “They should get together soon.” I don’t hear the yarn girl’s response but she hugs her goodbye. I just noticed that there is a really pretty ring on the floor behind yarn girl… I am contemplating if I should ask if it is hers or not. I probably will before I leave. The employee that had the red beanie just came out from the back but he isn’t wearing his beanie. I’ll still call him beanie boy anyway. The yarn girl is tidying up her table and is putting things into her bag, but now she is knitting quietly to herself. A couple walked in an ordered and are now sitting a couple of tables away from me. I can’t see them or really understand her conversation but the man is doing most of the talking. Now two girls walked in and they apparently know Jared because right when they walked in he said, “Hi! What’s up guys?!” and they both greeted him and one of them even high fived him. They are sharing a happy conversation and one of the girls orders her tea and she says, “I want a lot of cucumber! Like you don’t even have to cut it up!” and they laugh together. When they are finished ordering one of the girls recognizes the knitting girl and she comes up to her to greet her. She awkwardly asks knitting girl how she is doing and knitting girl quietly responds back. The cucumber girl and her friends awkwardly stand there and one of them says, “It was nice to meet you!” and walks away to another table. The other girls goes back to Jared and starts talking to him again and they talk for a bit when she lets him continue his work. It looks like cucumber girl and her friend are going to share a sandwich as I see one of them cutting it. The older lady that was sitting next me is getting up to leave. It looks like she was tearing out pages from her journal. I get up to leave and I ask the yarn girl if that is her ring that fell on the floor and she gets up to see. It’s not her ring she claims and asks me if it is mine which I tell her no. She tells me that she is going to turn it in. I leave the store and Jared tells me “Goodbye!” Until next time!

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