Coffee for two

Aurora IL

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So yes, today “was” perfect. Half way through our perfectly undisturbed, perfectly peaceful, perfectly routine day, she walked in. She opened the door and stepped inside and time stood still. The earth stopped rotating, the birds stopped chirping, I think half of us stopped breathing. We all stopped what we were doing and looked in the direction of the door. I think she was oblivious to the whole situation but it was far from that for us. Who dares enter and irruption our time? This is not for outsiders, this time is for us. I’m sure we all didn’t think the exact same but I’m confident, it was some variation of just that. What was in only a few seconds of silence as she stood at the door was an eternity for us. Judy broke the tension….. “Go ahead and sit where you like” In a move that I saw as a total insult, she walked over took a table in the center of the room. In the center of all of us! Really?! At that moment I had to tell myself that I was over reacting. She hadn’t harmed me or any of us. She was just a person waking into a dinner for a coffee or a meal or what ever. As efficient as Judy always is, she wasted no time approaching “her” and taking her order. With my earbuds I couldn’t eves drop on her order, but maybe what I see what she gets, I can then judge her. While everyone else appeared to go back to their respective routines, I had trouble. The distraction of “her” was just too much. I had a stressful week with work and things at home with the family so I was looking forward to this time more then usual. Maybe this is just me redirect my stress on someone else, but it’s hard not to put it off on another. I did my best to go back to my reading but it was hard. I stared at the screen and practically looked through it. I didn’t see words or anything. All I could think about was her. After Judy took her order, she settled in and flipped the coffee cup for Judy’s return. I don’t know why i was doing this but I watch every move she made. One cream and one sweeter just as Judy returned. She pulled a book from her bag and opened it to where she left off and started reading. She was neatly dressed, somewhere between casual and fancy. Maybe something one would wear to Sunday brunch but I don’t know. She acted like she belonged here which still bothered me but for the life of me, I couldn’t find anything negative about her to really support my distain for her. She had slightly longer then shoulder length brown hair, freckles and these brilliant blue eyes. I’m guessing she was in her early thirties and she wore a wedding ring. I’m a man and I can see beauty and she was beautiful. But she had to be at least twenty years younger then me so it was easy for me to ignore her looks and totally judge her for invading what was pure serenity………..