There is a nice breeze in the air while I am walking in to
the building. The parking lot is quite full. I enter the building and the first
thing I see is the Nook tablet, which is a device used for reading. Which
explains why there is a decrease in people buying paper books because most of
the books and articles are now offered online. I enter the Starbucks area and I
am surprised to see that there are a lot of people and I have some trouble
finding a table. I order a cookie and have a seat in the back right corner.
There are two middle-aged women, Susie and Renee, sitting to my left. They both
have Frappuccino’s in hand. Susie is wearing a dark green sweater with dark
colored boots. Renee is wearing a bright orange sweater, which is appropriate
because it’s just in time for the fall season. They are two friends having a
conversation about their children and how they are starting to date. Susie is
talking about how her daughter is growing up so fast and that she wants to be
independent. I am guessing that her daughter is in the teenage years because
that is the age period were most teens seem to think that they have
independence to do whatever they want.
Both ladies suddenly change their conversations to how the corn maze was
great this year. Susie is talking about how going to the corn maze used to be
difficult when her children were young because she had to struggle through the
crowds with the stroller and such. She said that going to the corn maze is now
more fun that her kids are grown up and could take care of themselves. Renee
suggests that they should get their kids together next year so they could go to
the corn maze.
A small boy around the age of 12 comes to the table where Susie
and Renee are at and he is Susie’s son, Troy. Troy whispers into his mother’s
ear and suggests that they should head home now. I conclude that Susie and
Renee have been here for w while talking. Susie tells Troy that they will head
home in a bit and Troy just stands there by the table patiently waiting. As
both women continue their conversation there is young lady sitting behind me on
her laptop doing homework. She is alone and seems really concentrated on her
homework. She doesn’t have a drink or a
pastry on her table, which tells me that she came here for a specific reason and
that is to do work and not socialize.
This environment is divided into two
categories I would say and that would be to both drink coffee and socialize
with another person or to have coffee and work or read a magazine and keep
quiet to yourself. This place has a very calm atmosphere. The music is not too
loud were you cant concentrate. As time passes by the noise level calms down
because more and more people are finishing their business here and heading out
towards the exit. In those people would include Renee and Susie and their kids
because next time I look again they aren’t there anymore. Although they have
left the young girl is still here in her laptop. I finish my cookie and head
out into the breeze of nature.
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