Coffee By Design

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  By Tiago St. Shirley
  Counter Snippet:
  "What would you like?"
  "Yeah, I'll have a bagel with cream cheese and an 8oz medium coffee, please."
  "Would you like your bagel toasted?"
  "Yes, toasted."
  
  The man steps to his left at the counter from in front of the bagel case.
  
  "Do you want that to go?"
  "Yes please."
  "That'll be four seventeen."
  "Four seventeen...," the man mutters to himself as he fishes from his wallet a five dollar bill and gives it to the female clerk.
  
  The customer is waiting for his change fidgeting with coins he keeps in his wallet.
  
  "Do you want your change?" the clerk asks as she at first is about to hand coins to him, but hesitates withdrawing her hand as she asks the man. It seems she withdraws her hand to the man customer as he looks up from his wallet at the clerk.
  
  "Yes." He puts out his right hand, palms the change and puts it into his wallet. He notices that he has a taxi coupon in his wallet when he is assessing his change.
  
  The clerk is slicing the bagel and places it in the toaster feed. She then tilts the spout of the coffee canister on the back wall counter adjacent to the toaster and fills an 8oz cup that she reached head high for on an above shelf. She places the cup of coffee at the front counter by the register in front of the customer.
  
  "Does anybody here take taxis?" he asks the clerk behind the counter now squatting to the lower shelf on the back wall beneath the upper shelves of sweet drink juice bottles with spouts, cups, coffee canisters, toaster and supplies.
  
  "Taxi? Do you want me to call you a taxi?"
  
  "No. I have a coupon for a taxi. Does anybody here take taxis?" he asks the clerk behind the counter peering round to see the female manager with a clipboard by the drink cooler near the front counter where he stands. The man notices that the manager doesn't seem to take notice of him.
  
  "I don't know. I'm not sure," she says still squatting behind the counter to the lower shelf looking up at him briefly.
  
  "Well, do you take taxis?"
  
  "No, but I have a friend who takes them. I'll give it to them," she says as she stands up and comes two paces to the front counter. The man hands her the business card coupon.
  
  "Here you go."
  
  He folds and puts his wallet into his left pocket stepping round to the side counter to wait for his bagel to toast. He waits for it to rotate through the toaster. The bagel slides the chute of the toaster. He notices it.
  
  The clerk swoops up the bagel, cream cheese packets, a napkin and a plastic knife and puts it all in a white paper bag folding the top of the bag over once while handing the customer the bag.
  
  "I don't need a bag," the man says as he is unfolding it to grab the bagel.
  
  "But, the cream cheese is in there."
  
  "You mean you didn't spread the cream cheese?" he asks as he looks in the bag.
  
  "No."
  
  "Will you spread the cream cheese?"
  
  "No. We don't do that here. It holds up the line."
  
  "Oh," the man says noticing no line. "Well, how am I going to spread the cream cheese?"
  March 12, 2017