Ethnography

Ethnography

November 29, 2015

Sloooooowww Day...

Today the restaurant seems pretty empty even though it is around lunch time. The weather is cloudy. Still the drive thru has probably one or two cars.  It Sunday, so maybe everyone wants to stay home.  That is what I want to do right now. There is a tall lady with brown hair and a kid that has long blond hair. He seems around five or six years old. In the booth in front of me a worker is eating his lunch.  He is a mature man around forty years old.  He is Hispanic/Latino looking. He wears black thick reading glasses. Seems very humble, because he haunches. the other workers are wearing the same uniform and he is very quiet.  The cashier guy is very young, probably a teenager.  He was very happy to see me.  Guess not many young people had walked in. When he was attending the couple before me, he did not seem interested enough to engage as he did with me.  There is a medium size Christmas tree with red and silver glitter decorations and yellow twinkling lights.  A white family comes in.  The guardians are old looking enough to be the three boys grandparents  The oldest is a teenager and the two other siblings look below thirteen.  An old white man walks in and says he has not been in this restaurant since he was ten.  His attitude was pretty upbeat and cheerful.  Like he was a kid all over again.  The sky seems to be clearing up a bit.  Two ladies and a girl come into the restaurant.  The shorter woman is wearing a pink camouflage jacket and jeans, the taller woman is more dressed up in leggings and black boots and the little girl is wearing a pink sweatshirt and jeans. The two woman looked Hispanic and the little girl seemed like she had an African-American characteristics with Hispanic characteristics. A man in a brown hat and a woman (does not look very womanly) come in with a little girl and a baby in a baby carriage. They looked Anglo descendance.  For this day, maybe because it is so close to the holidays, most people are out of town and there is not many customers coming in.

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