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At the Coffee Shop
Me | March 15, 2020 | ProtectOurFreedom

Posted on 03/15/2020 9:08:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

I've been away from California since before Christmas. I moved to our house in Idaho, which we bought two years ago, to work on improvement projects and got back to California a week and a half ago.

I got up early today (Sunday) and decided to go have breakfast at my favorite coffee shop in Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Peninsula area not far from San Jose). I got there just before 8 and was the only customer for a while. Julie, the owner, was telling me how her business is really taking a hit.

I finished breakfast about 8:40 and was sipping my coffee. Some customers had arrived and I was reading today's news when in walks a Chinese-American couple in their 60s and sits down in the booth next to me. Julie walks up to welcome them (she nows everybody in town) and asks "How was your cruise?" Fortunately, they weren't coughing and hacking, but I quickly paid and skedaddled back home instead of lingering over a couple more cups of coffee.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: anotherdamnedvanity; anotherstupidvanity; breakfast; coronavirus; covid19
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To: SamAdams76

Without people able to work, the supply chains will break.

You may get an MRE or two.


41 posted on 03/15/2020 10:05:11 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I was actually thinking about going to Chumash Casino today. In normal times I don’t especially like people or large crowds so if it’s empty that would be perfect to me. Lol


42 posted on 03/15/2020 10:05:24 AM PDT by sheana
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To: null and void

Thanks. I was near there a couple days ago. I was walking through Vasona Park with our doggie a couple days ago and managed to get turned around in Los Gatos. Missed Los Gatos Blvd north and went east on Blossom Hill to Union before turning north.


43 posted on 03/15/2020 10:07:09 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It was a favorite when I lived in San Jose.

Wanna buy a house in San Jose?...


44 posted on 03/15/2020 10:11:06 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I don’t think that’s on the menu and I’m allergic to molk


45 posted on 03/15/2020 10:13:24 AM PDT by cyclotic (A vote for Democrats is a vote for lower traffic volumes)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Wow!


46 posted on 03/15/2020 10:13:32 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Vasona Park is nice. Been there a few times.


47 posted on 03/15/2020 10:16:38 AM PDT by moviefan8
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Hey they make these things that would obviate your distress over sitting next to those folks at a coffee shop.

https://us.jura.com/en/homeproducts/machines


48 posted on 03/15/2020 10:23:37 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Which cafe was it? The one on State?


49 posted on 03/15/2020 10:23:54 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: moviefan8

The last time I was in Vasona was when the kids were little and we drove through looking at the Christmas lights. This was my first time walking the park and I was rather disappointed with the maintenance there. It felt a bit shabby (looks great from the highway, but up close, not so much). A lot of the problem is that cities don’t maintain the lawns in their parks because of the fear of pesticides and the water rationing. So the big expanses of lawn are now mostly weeds riddled with ground squirrel burrows. There were lots of large fallen tree limbs that nobody is picking up.

Ever since we started paying tens of billions to illegals and homeless, the state of our parks has declined precipitously. Taxes from legal citizens support the illegals, indigent, bums and homeless, not our “public squares,” and civic life is much worse than it used to be. I think this conclusion is a straight line from “A” to “B.”

To make it worse, Los Gato and Vasona are right in the middle of the most affluent region in the country.

We spend a lot of time in the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho area. It is far less prosperous than Silicon Valley, yet is conservatively governed, has a minuscule problem with illegals and homeless, and far lower taxes. Somehow the city parks there are magnificent compared to the crap in California.


50 posted on 03/15/2020 10:24:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: zipper

LOL. Yeah, but a part of my mission to get out was to help keep Julie in business.


51 posted on 03/15/2020 10:25:31 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Suicide and Opioid crisis have had far more legions of deaths....

Are they contagious?

52 posted on 03/15/2020 10:25:41 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: Disambiguator

“The Village Pantry” on Second. You’re thinking of “Rick’s” on State.


53 posted on 03/15/2020 10:26:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

How about if you sent her a check with a nice card? Getting the service later would be the best thing, if you can afford it.

It would be a special gesture she’d definitely appreciate, and remember.


54 posted on 03/15/2020 10:28:05 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: zipper

I always give her a gift at Christmas and other times during the year. Left her a very generous tip today.


55 posted on 03/15/2020 10:29:03 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ameribbean expat
Place is empty, so a couple who just got off a cruise plunk down next to the only other occupied booth. Idiots.

I've had that happen on a dual-lane highway with two lanes in each direction, virutally empty except for me and one other car—which won't stop trying to ride my tail, cruise beside me, or pass and pull in right in front of me no matter how many times I correct for it. Some people just can't bear to be alone.

56 posted on 03/15/2020 10:31:50 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Party that freed sIaves, passed Civil Rights is called racist by the party that started the KKK.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I ate at one of them a couple years ago when we were there for the Ann Coulter thing, but I don’t exactly remember which one. It was long and skinny and the back door opened right into the parking lot. The interior was painted a bluish color, IIRC.


57 posted on 03/15/2020 10:32:12 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

That is the place. Very old school...you have to like that sort of place to enjoy it. The back door opens onto a very nice courtyard which is wonderful on warm sunny days.


58 posted on 03/15/2020 10:33:15 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ameribbean expat

I will never understand that. People sit right next to you in an empty restaurant. People park right next to your car in an empty parking lot. I am always trying to keep a private space around me where possible. It is just more peaceful and less hassle that way. I think most people behave that way, but you have some people who will sit right next to you in an empty building. I don’t get it. Bizarre behavior.


59 posted on 03/15/2020 10:38:13 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Demolishing/replacing a 1940’s vintage water tank, nestled behind behind multi million $ homes in the hills W/O the 280. Work is for a water agency. Near Eloise Circle.


60 posted on 03/15/2020 10:39:32 AM PDT by umgud
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