“Anita, coffee!!” was a constant refrain at the coffee shop where Anita had been working for ten years.
“If I didn’t know better,” she told Harvey, a regular, “I’d swear my full name was Anita Coffee.”
“What’s your full name?” he asked.
“Anita Cappuccino,” she replied.
“Knowing it would annoy her, Eunice said, ‘I understand. Every day, it’s the same grind.'”
“Floyd contributed his share, “It may never amount to a hill of beans.”
Suddenly a new customer put some money into the jukebox. Not surprisingly, the song he played was Al Hirt’s “Java.”
It simply wasn’t Anita’s day.
Welcome back yet again to Rochelle’s weekly Friday Fictioneers, wherein this week Jilly Funell supplies the photo prompt.
Poor Anita…
Funny. I have a member at the golf club where I work. I call him Mr. Buck (stein, in French) because he’s not even up the stairs and we can hear him yell: “Buuuuuuck!”
Arsehole.
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Yes there are colorful characters everywhere
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Indeed!
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Better to be known for something, they would miss her if the coffee stopped flowing.
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yes that gives her quite a competitive edge over them.
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You’re starting to find a distinctive voice of your own, Larry. Keep at it! That was a fun little story.
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Thanks Penny
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Dear Larry,
Well-brewed story. Anita Cappuccino? That made me laugh.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. I stole that part from an old rerun of ‘Chico And the Man.’ I haven’t seen it in a long time, but someone referred to it recently because it was Penny Marshall’s birthday.
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Ah Chico and the Man. I loved that show. Now I look back on it with sadness. Well swiped. 😉
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Clever, clever. Poor Anita 🙂
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Thanks. Life is often like that
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Anita was happening a bad day. New customer may it worse.
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Yes it was a bottomless pit of trouble for her
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Poor girl, she never really stood a chance!
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Fun play on coffee terms
And in 1994 I actually worked with someone in Denver CO who was named Sunshine E. Day
Middle name was e
Parents were hippies
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Yes that’s quite believable. Those hippies can be quite colorful about names. Thanks
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Have a nice night!
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Ha! Ha! Loved it but I don’t they should have mocha her like that. She probably had a latte on her mind.
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Thanks . At least she really knows how to espresso herself.
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Very creative. I could use a cup right now.
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Thanks .Anita always has lots of it available.
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Sounds like a fine roast is brewing for poor Anita today. Perhaps she needs to just filter out all of those coffee puns peculating around her brain 😉 Nice one.
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Thanks at least we know she’s well grounded
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I think there is a grain of truth in your story. Loved it. And when I was a hardworking secretary I did sometimes want to change my name!
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Yes everyone has those occasional moments
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This is not a black and white situation, she needs to latte herself filter out the good. It’s mocha do about nothing.
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She should perk up so she doesn’t too soon end up in a caffeine
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I think that it could be a lot worse… imagine she worked with the sewage company… that would put her in a shitty situation.
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Oy I think she made the better choice
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Poor Anita! Well-crafted.
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Thanks
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Loved it😊
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