Coffee Shop Observations

A few weeks back our class was given the assignment to head to a coffee shop and pay attention. I went with a couple classmates to the 4th Street Coffee shop because it is attached to the MLK library. Once in the coffee shop I notices a few things right off the back: people on laptops, people chatting, people talking/texting on cell phones, and a line of people waiting to order a drink or food item. Once we sat down at one of the small round tables I noticed how sunny the place was. The about three quarters of the walls were made of glass, and since it is on the corner of the building, you have a pretty nice view of the street. After sitting for a little while, I noticed that something was happening in the street. There was a long pack of people on bicycles taking up the lanes of San Fernando street. I was not sure the occasion but since my friends and I do a similar thing every month, I took a video. I was looking around at the counter, listening to the grinding and hissing sounds, smelling the aroma of coffee and steamed milk. I started to get hungry. The line of the Coffee shop, I noticed, would go from long to short. The line was at about a mid-range so I got up to wait in the line. As I was getting up to head to the line a group of students went strait to the back of the line, making it a long line again. I sat back down. I waited for the line to die down again, and once it did, I got a croissant. It was interesting to observe the coffee shop and the small patterns within it. I could like to do it again some time.