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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICK!!

there's this young couple that comes for waffles quite often when i work on Tuesdays. they're an unlikely couple - the guy's a pretty big, awkward looking asian; the girl's a petite caucasian, cute as anything. but as peculiar a match as they seem, they've been together for quite a while, and it's always nice to see them together.

anyway, this couple always orders a large waffle to share, and last night the guy came to order as usual. only, the girl wasn't with him. she was standing alone at the rail, waiting for him. only, he didn't go back to her after he'd ordered. he stood in front of the store waiting.

call us busybodies, but we found this really weird. and we thought they had a fight. Mich felt bad cause she thought the girl was upset that the waffle was taking so long to get there. and when the guy finally got his waffle, he went to sit near the girl, who was still standing.

he offered her some waffle, she declined. she said something to him, with her arms crossed over her chest, he ignored. then she put her jacket on, and walked away.

we were all strangely heartbroken.

the guy calmly finished his waffle, then stood up, returned the plate, and walked out in the opposite direction.

quite a while later, the girl comes back alone, looks around the food court, then walks up to us.

"could i just quickly get a bottle of water?"

i think that was the moment we were all truly shattered.


we tend to form attachments to certain customers; we see them all the time, we remember their orders, we know just how they like their coffee, we know where they'll sit.
it's weird when something changes; like the time one of our customers died, or when a bunch of them left perth.
i guess we all like regularity in our lives.
too bad shit happens.