I walk up to the coffee shop and three men are sitting outside
enjoying the nice day and their coffees. All three wear glasses, have gray hair
and button up shirts; the only difference is the patterns on the men’s shirts. I
go inside to get my food and drink and when I return the men moved to a table
that is more in the shade then the table they were at. I sit down sort of close
to them to get a better observation point.
The man in the striped blue and white shirt goes inside to
get his coffee filled when my food comes out, I feed the bread to the birds and
they fly closer to the button up shirt table. The man in the solid blue shirt
screams loudly, I am assuming at the birds to scare them away. The other man
that stayed outside with him with the Hawaiian shirt does not budge or get
startled showing that he was fine with the sold blue shirt screaming. The striped
shirt comes back to the table and the Hawaiian shirt asks if his ears were wringing,
because they were talking about him taking so long inside for just a cup of
coffee.
Hawaiian shirt gets up and starts walking towards me in the midst
of his walk he kicks a rock my way, passing me without saying anything he grabs
one of the newspapers behind me and returns to his table. Solid blue shirts
phone starts wringing and he answers it very sternly with his hello. He talks
about planning an event and having live music play during the event, while the
other men sit quietly drinking their coffee.
Solid blue gets off his phone and striped shirt starts
complaining about paying so much for Netflix and it not being worth it. He gets on his phone and asks the other two
how he can pay the bill off his phone because it is completely different then
the computer. Hawaiian shirt shows him while solid blue asks why he doesn’t just
delete his account if it is not worth the money he is paying. Striped shirt
explains that his kids use it and they love it. While they discuss the age of
his kids and needing to grow up more people start coming into the coffee shop. In
the middle of talking solid blue shirt lets out another scream as the birds
come closer to him, startling every table on the patio except their table.
They then start to discuss some business; striped shirt gets
very loud as he is mimicking what I think is an employee of them apologizing for
something he thinks they did wrong. Hawaiian shirt sits and listens while solid
blue is on his computer somewhat listening. When they go to speak striped shirt
points at them saying you and you be quite, and carries on with calling the
employee he is mimicking stupid.
While I finally get tired of listening to these three men
talk about other people and scaring the birds that are always here striped
shirt gets a phone call. The call sounds like it could be someone he works with
but when he gets off the phone he says he will be home in a few and he loves
whoever is on the other side of the call. Knowing that it was someone from home
by his conversation, he tells the other two he has to go and he will see them
tomorrow. They all stand up shake each other’s hands and striped shirt leaves
while solid blue and Hawaiian stay to finish their coffee.
No comments:
Post a Comment