Hundreds of small translucent fellows hurrying about their business along the streets lined with identical round-crowned trees with the same acute-angled cut leaves. Some went to Starbucks and became a small, fast moving part, settled down at ease on the broad seat, all in the same poses, the same distance between the back and the back of the chair, absorbed in digging into laptops.
He was expecting a simple unpretentious operation: to ask the girls at Starbucks for coffee, to pay a drink to go.
Of course, it could turn into a different, interesting: she could smile, talk, take time off from work to ask her friend to pour coffee, sit down, talk, then they would go to a movie, a light romantic film, and ran for only three years together. Three whole years and then unavoidable break-up - because of the age , the age in all captions .Age of relationship, Age gap,Their own Age.
But the girl was a student working on a project - something current and interactive, moonlighted at a coffee shop, this was a tough girl, confident, hardened in their twenties, and he - always uncertain,the shadow of confidence. She calmly knocked caps, and meanwhile, chatted - online - with a kind of dude, co-worker. Do not flatter yourself, dude, she is not interested in you, it would only take time.
He took the coffee, paid, waited until it cool down, the edge of the cup was thick, he usually takes the cups and sips espresso on the go ... Interestingly, would she know how to say le espresso quotidien? Some people do not know and do not care to know.
Simple operation is unpretentious, drink coffee, smiling girl, no feeling, tell your list - cappuccino, biscuit with almonds. This will enable her program and she will make a number of actions - empty the little cup of freshly ground coffee, fill up of new supply under the "nipple" of a coffee machine,meanwhile, already smells refreshing . He sees people in front of him in line - well-groomed hair, not cheap clothing, the city is still not the worst in people hopes, hope to succeed, expensive cars on the streets, opened a whole area on the Lower West Side with exclusive shops - Armani,Brook brothers, it's good . In this part of the city, all dressed in a businesslike manner. "Underlings" - hairdresser, manicurist, waiters - also wore a kind of uniform - black or white robes and tunics.
That passed by a girl - in just from the dry-cleaner-black short tunic, black jeans, a professional - polite inscrutable face. She works in a hairdressing salon, the gallery, but may be at the waiting room for a lawyer. Spends half the salary on the fact, that she look as if she does not care how she looks. She wants to find a boyfriend with a stable job and a hair matching the color of bedroom wallpaper.
And he thinks: Why are people so afraid of socialism? Raging Reagan-ism only leads to one thing - you buy expensive furniture and choosing a leave of absence from a new, more expensive travelling catalog.
He ordered himself - enough time to stifle an inner hippie. Finished his coffee, leaving only a weak foam, and decisively, nonchalantly wiped his lips. It's time for work - the future of the city, spacious and chic cafe bars, where people rush to translucent in the streets, seated with the bigger round-crowned trees with the same leaves. Brings customers a crystal dream, not knowing what they want. Customer clinging. He was planning something even more precious, more elegant. The rich have their own directory. The next time to add glitter, blue, sky outside the window, make dummy behind the counter having huge cleavage - the customer happy, he was persuaded that it was from the beginning that he wanted to. You a little sick, you want to explain what you feel ashamed of yourself, and that the project is not hopeless - exactly ashamed to the point, until the client begins to pull the money out of the budget or to buy instead of marble dyed veneers and ruin the whole dream.
He came out of the cafe, it was just a break and she sat by the window. Once an unremarkable visitor crossed the threshold - he straightened up, get sporty, and went down the street with a wonderful light walk, a little fluorescent on the folds, as if drawn with blue lines.