My new laptop's sleek, matte key pads are now slightly smudged with butter from my fingertips, and there are crumbs on the trackpad. I just ate this croissant:
I'm in my cat-sitting neighborhood at the café that reminds a friend of Palo Alto--he won't come here.
I like it well enough, for a change, but I was surprised when Sister suggested I look at some apartments nearby (she lives on the same block). I wouldn't want to live here, I told her.
"Too far away from work?" Sister asked.
"Not my people," I said.
Lovely people, no doubt, but they're so... shiny. No crumbs and smudges. Of course, everyone suffers, but I admit I can't always see that through the glare of their perfectly coiffed hair.
My café neighbors:
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My coworkers are NOT "better" people––(I bet no one in this coffee shop has stabbed anyone)––but [she types on her thousand-dollar Apple], I feel more ...comfortable? real? among people who show the wear and tear of entropy.
Entropy. It's the law!
Those neighbors, yikes. But they must have their troubles too. As Elaine Stritch liked to say, Everyone’s got a bag of rocks. I think she was quoting her husband. But still, those neighbors, yikes. The one on the right looks like she wants to be Kellyanne Conway.
ReplyDeleteGuess what? Those matte keys will be shiny before you know it, no matter how careful you are. The friction shines up the plastic. There’s no fix.
(Safari on the iPad and iPhone no longer lets me comment. With the Brave browser, it’s fine. I don’t know if there’s a fix for that.)
I love that you have a new computer, no longer duct taped to a slow poke, broken poke. I agree with you so heartily, the neighborhood is not ours , the girlettes would find it difficult , wearing girl shoes and behaving predictably, according to Vogue. Shiny people can not run from bears at the drop of a croissant, nor can they leap into the lake to save a drowning stick...I think I know these folks, they live in uptown apartments I am sure, with too many pillows.
ReplyDeleteAs REM would say "shiny, happy people!" Now that description of some coffee shop will be stuck in my head!
ReplyDeleteAre those chairs even comfortable? They remind me of Thonet style but the hard angular lines don't seem to be that inviting.
Kirsten