Monday morning at Starbucks

After dropping the kid off at school this morning I wondered over to Starbucks on US1 and Broward for a cup of joe and to get my work done for the day. I find if I do this, I can get most of my daily grind done but about 10:30 in the morning. Not bad all in all. Of course this doesn’t include anything that will come up throughout the day that needs to get take care of, but it helps. And I sit here now listening to the endless stream of Norah Jones and watching the lawyers and business folk roll in and out for their daily ritual. The entire experience can actually be inspiring in a odd sort of way. And there are a lot of attractive women to give the once over that visit the place.

There is an odd group of girls (women) that visit this Starbucks pretty much every morning. Consisting of a South American woman, not sure which country… maybe Venezuela, and her kid that has quite possibly the most hellacious case of ADD I’ve ever seen, and a bunch of other Victoria Park socialites with the latest Prada handbags. Just sitting in range of them is enough to make you want to blow your brains out. There is also one really attractive, tall blonde woman that is just stunning. The first time I saw her I thought she was Nicole Kiddman. I had to do a double take. But after seeing her here for the last couple of years, it’s obvious she’s just a single divorced mom. And she actually gives me a pleasant glance from time to time. I’d like to talk to her but even in my 40’s I’m just terribly awkward at meeting and talking to girls/women. I can handle shooting my big mouth off to thousands of people standing in front of a mic while huge crowds of people wait for my every word, but talking to attractive women just makes me weak in the knees and I end up saying really stupid shit. My boss, who also happens to be my friend, (isn’t that amazing) says that this is a malady of all radio folks. We’re all geeks who are comfortable at sitting in a little room preforming, but we have no real social skills. We were the AV geeks in high school. I do believe that for the most part he is right.

Right now there are two girls in their 20’s going on and on about relationships sitting next to me. It’s pretty amazing to eavesdrop on the happenings and lives in these places. They are sitting there comparing notes on guys they’ve dated and that they know, running through the shopping list of likes and dislikes of all the guys. This one is too shy, and that one is too rowdy, and he is nice and he is really outgoing…. It’s interesting that they don’t talk about how good looking someone is or how well he is hung (although I’m certain they do talk about this, just not in Starbucks), they talk about their personality’s and their traits (and their jobs). Just another reinforcement of the concept that if someone ain’t in pain or dying they are talking about or thinking about relationships or sex. (Patty Griffin is playing on the stereo now, much better)

In other exciting news I think my daughters iBook died. I can’t get the drive to reformat or install a new OS. She got impatient repairing permissions last night after having some trouble and did a force re-boot while running disc repair. I think the drive is hosed. I may just break down and buy her a new laptop. Really can’t afford it, but she’s a geek and it’s one of the things she truly enjoys.

later….