I was in Starbucks today working for an hour and observing. What great people watching you can do in there! Here’s what I noticed:

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  1. There were 5 men in there between the ages of 50-60. All 5 had very elongated oval heads and the same grey hair, with similar balding patterns. All sat alone. All faced in the same direction.
  2. A woman with a very sweaty back, a bag of takeout food and a stack of newsletters from her church came in and talked to herself out loud. She was trying to decide where to sit, but was thinking out loud and shaking her head about the logistics of sitting and eating on the different chairs. I offered to help her make a decision. We finally worked it out. She went up to order a drink and was unable to make a decision about that either. The barista was geting frustrated. She came back to her seat about 20 minutes later and fussed with her takeout bag, her new drink and her papers. It was fascinating to watch. When she got up to leave, her back was twice as sweaty as when she arrived , even though the A/C was quite chilly in there. Not sure what that was all about.
  3. An adorable elderly lady came in and took the sweaty lady’s seat. She looked at my laptop and tried to think of the word “internet” but was unable to do so. She was trying to ask me how it works in a house and how one can sign up for it and then learn how to use it. Her 3 granddaughters approached her. I told her that they would teach her. But she said that they don’t want her to learn because then they would have to share their computers with her. When it was time for her to leave, she was unable to get up on her own. I got up to help, but her granddaughters yanked her arms and got her up. It was obvious that this was something they were used to doing. Poor old thing got in her car and drove the 2 kids. We could not believe she could drive, given the shape she was in. That’s South Florida for ya!
  4. A man sat down on the couch next to my daughter (she was doing her homework) and he started to work on his computer. He dialed someone on his cell. Literally every 5 minutes or less, he told the person he was talking to that he had a call on the other line. Not only did he click back and forth repeatedly, but he did not stop talking for a second. Whoever was on the other line(s) could not possibly have said one word to him. It was as if he had taken a massive verbal diarrhea pill.

My daughter and I couldn’t take it any longer, so we left.

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