A Life in Waiting

I began writing this post sitting in Coffee Lab Roasters in Tarrytown, NY and am now completing it at the Peekskill Coffee House. Two completely different places that share a common theme. As I have been frequenting more and more coffee shops, I’ve been coming to really appreciate my home town shop. Just a very cool place to hang out where there is an adult crowd, lively and friendly staff and late hours. Pretty much 90% of the posts that I have posted up here have been generated sitting in this eclectic old building. Not sure if I can place the reasoning, but I could barely get out more than that opening paragraph while sitting in Tarrytown, but here in Peekskill the words just flow right out. Might just be a comfort issue.

Now if only they served alcohol here as Jeremy just recently pointed out. Not a full bar, but perhaps some wine and cordials. You don’t want to turn this into a bar atmosphere, but how cool would it be to just go sit at the coffee house sipping cognac and discussing worldly issues? Helsinki, Finland you could do this. In Finland it is a lot more socially acceptable to go and meet friends at the local pub at any time during the day. Not to go and get drunk (although you could), but to just sit, relax and shoot the shit over a Lapin Kulta. Hell we even had a Trivial Pursuit match one lazy afternoon at the corner bar.

Let’s just hope that I am as fortunate as I am now to find such places once I cross the pond.