Coffee Break...

Simon and I went out on a coffee and cookie date today. Fall budgeting has eliminated eating food out, and most times I don't miss it, but today I got that itch to sit in someone else's dining room for a while, which led us on a meandering walk to the local coffee shop in town. We sat near the window through which Simon identified truck, car and jeep, while I sipped my hot coffee and took in the people around us. The woman fresh from exercise class, reading the New York Times and eating a bowl of soup. The couple in hiking boots with maps spread out on their table planning their next leaf peeping jaunt. The older lady next to us that complained that her tea was bitter, but absolutely loved the name Simon, "a proper name", she said to me more than once. Simon ate half of his chocolate chip cookie and happily packed up the rest to take home for Greta, and I felt rejuvenated from the coffee and the perspective that being among other people doing other things gives me. It was a very nice date.