In American movies, a lot happens over coffee. People meet, people fall in love, people laugh. In fact, the whole spectrum of innocent and positive human emotion happens over coffee. And it doesn't matter what coffee, as long as it has a complicated name it'll do as a catalyst for pure and perfect things..
Well, mine is a grande skinny hazelnut latte, yet I sit here by myself, writing and listening to Bob Dylan. No one knows I exist, I am the definition of inconspicuous. I am hoping one day that I will be sitting here and someone will notice me, at first he'll just watch me. He'll watch me and I'll be engrossed in my work...
I'll subconsciously play with my hair, as it's often pointed out that I do.
I'll have my legs crossed - something he finds endearing as it shows my want for a childish freedom. He'll notice that I drink out of a takeaway cup even though I'm clearly "drinking in". From this I bet he'll read my love of spontaneity.
He wont care that my hair is auburn at the top and black at the bottom, or that my nail polish is chipped, or that in general I'm not very pretty. He'll see my funny face as nothing short of intriguing.
He'll think of a number of different scenarios in which he could approach me and I wouldn't look at him with disgust. I'd like to point out, at this point in my dream, I am still completely oblivious!
After a while he decides, "there's no point in just hanging around staring." Soon I would be gone, and he might never see me again. He'd pluck up the courage to come over...
"Um, hi, is this seat taken?" He'd ask sheepishly, though with a beaming smile. I'd see him for the first time in this daydream, I can't describe him really, he's just too good. I'd look around the room to see it's almost empty and wondering why he asked me specifically for the chair opposite of me. I'd smile back and say, "Not at all, go ahead"
Thinking that was it, the encounter with a beautiful boy was over, I'd lower my head back to my work. Then I'd hear, "Sorry, are you busy? I just thought you shouldn't be drinking coffee on your own"
And there it would be - bam - straight out of the movies. We'd talk, laugh, love, all over coffee.
Then again, I should probably just leave it to Hollywood.
What are your thoughts about romance over coffee? Have you ever daydreamed about romantic scenarios?
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I'm pretty sure you just described my coffee daydream perfectly. :P
Although, I also have some different scenarios up my sleeve...most of my daydreams are not this innocent. hahaha
I work as a barista. Trust me. This actually happens.
That would be my nightmare. Sipping over-priced coffee in a room full of hipsters and staring akwardly at a guy?
Just take me to the bar so we can get tanked and laugh at off-color jokes and listen to classic rock. Really.
I met my boyfriend at a cafe :) we were sitting outside among the same group of friends, but we didn't know eachother. I remember it was really cold and windy and he gave me his jacket.
my whole life revolves around coffee, so hopefully one day a romance will bud over it :]
lovely post.
-x.
This makes me want to start drinking coffee! :)
@chell_kicks_08@xanga - You give me hope!
This is exactly my coffee daydream. Every time I get Starbucks and sit alone at a table working on something, I hope this happens to me :P
This makes me smile a lot! So cute, though, i find that going for coffee is kind of awkward. I'm not a fan of the whole one-on-one with someone I don't know, because I'm terrible at making conversation.
Orrrrrr... you could get off your ass, fucking nut up, and actually approach a guy you see in the coffee shop. I know, I know, men are big scary monsters, but just maybe you're a big girl now and you can do it. Women should only have pussies, not act like them.
These comments make me lose hope for today's woman. Except for you@FairyTalesAndWhiskey@xanga, except for you. (Well and my girlfriend.)
@mcmeister89@mancouch - Kinda harsh, but I see where you're coming from.
Either way, whatever the content, your writing is fabulous. :)
well... beyond the entire grossness of coffee...
what kind of coffee are you drinking so that 'you shouldn't be drinking alone'??? what i mean to ask is, is there a difference between irish-coffee and a thing of vodka with a few coffee beans mixed in?
personally, i fantasize more about being awkward and being accepted; than similar for nonchalance. cause there is something about being wanted while not being wanted by others that i find intrinsically attractive, and seductive. and so i view it as superior to being wanted cause others want 'me'.
basically i'd rather be accepted as a person who isn't smiling and is behaving kinda creepily, so that the feelings could sincerely change into joy; from a few choice words... than be the 'romantic comedy ideal' and feel personally validated through pretending; lieing.
in your coffee place example, i'd be the guy who falls to the floor calling out "noxious vapors of the coffee bean, we meet again" then stand up and do some really bad fake fighting with the air. then i'd crawl over to you and say "save yourself, before its too late... oh no *looking at the coffee cup* they've gotten to you too PLEASE snap out of it... follow me, we have to get you to safety" *gets back on the ground and does a marine crawl to the door*
if the girl plays along then later the romantic comedy stuff might flow naturally later... but simply TRYING for the romance seems contrived; literally like the guy is trying to hard.
this made me want to vomit a little. sorry :/
OH man. So this wasn't over coffee, but it was at a shop at my college, and some cute guy came over and asked me "is this seat taken" (i kid you not!). it was just like that and i would have died XDD
...except that i was meeting up with my boyfriend. So i just had to awkwardly say, "um yeah it is" and he went and sat by himself somewhere else. I felt so bad!! I hope I did not put him off random sweet encounters such as this!
This post made me smile! awesome.
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I have been drinking coffee since I was 4 years old and I still take my wife of 54 years to Starbucks about 3 times a week for coffee. I love doing that with her.
blessings
frank
I don't like coffee anyhow..lmao but doesn't everyone dream about those types of scenarios? I do lmao
I noticed this guy at a coffee shop before, who looked like a business man. he was talking to another business man, who sat across from him like a lunch time meeting or something. my daydream at that moment while discreetly staring at him wasn't romantic in the You've Got Mail movie-meg ryan and tom hanks cute love story kind of way. I wanted to walk over and sit on his lap
then again this coffee shop was at a hotel casino, so the ambience of the place made me naughtier. I've had innocently cute daydreams too.
Well, the idea for movies has to come from somewhere. It could happen.
I get where mcmeister89 is coming from, but this is a fantasy situation. Saying that the woman should go up and do it instead of the man just gets flips the roles. Men have fantasies, so I've heard, about women approaching them and making the first move. That's because starting something out of thin air is terrifying for a lot of people (but not all). It can especially complicated by social awkwardness or shyness or depression or low self-esteem, which aren't necessarily excuses but they are explanations for someone who would fantasize about this type of situation. Someone always has to make the first move, does it matter if someone fantasizes that it's someone else?
My fantasy revolves around striking up a conversation with someone else and having it work. My fantasy revolves around hearing a good song on the radio and going up to the hot guy and starting to dance and he just joins in. We stop and he looks at me and we sit down and start talking like nothing happened even though we're both still thinking about being pressed to each other and moving together and feeling our breaths mingling. I fantasize about being accepted for who I am.
i've tried it before.. sitting at a coffee shop, waiting for some guy to catch my eyes or some guy who found me eye-catchy.. but nope. Nothing.
Love this post... and yes, I've daydreamed about meeting someone at Borders while reading a book and sipping coffee...
Cute post :) I've daydreamed about that kinds thing too, just not with coffee because I hate coffee lol
Aww, I really love this post. Adorable! <3