Coffee Conversation No 3. Pros and cons of a date in a coffee shop

I've been planning this date for a whole week. My palms are sweating at the thought of the two of us sitting alone at a table. At the beginning of the semester, when I saw her in the back of the classroom, so quiet but attentive to the professor and taking notes in her blue notebook, I thought she would be a very interesting girl to meet. Suddenly I wanted to know her musical tastes, her ideas, her dreams....

It wasn't until last week, at the end of class, when I finally dared to approach her and say hi. She noticed the pin in my bag from "The Rocket Molets" and told me it was her favorite movie, and that maybe someday we could get together and chat about it over coffee. I didn't want to miss the opportunity and I suggested a date and place, a few blocks near the university. She accepted without hesitation. The date was set for Saturday, February 4 at the Café "Dulce Tinto" on 103rd Street 16th Avenue.

I'm the kind of person who reads Google Maps reviews before visiting a restaurant and looks at a movie's rating on Rotten Tomatoes before even watching the trailer. This level of caution and anticipation of any details got me thinking about the pros and cons of having a first date at that Café.

It can be a bit of a noisy environment between the other conversations, music, the sound of the machines and the clinking of cups and ceramics. Will we be able to talk comfortably? On second thought, I think so. A cup of coffee is the perfect beverage for interesting topics of conversation. Especially because coffee has the ability to energize you and sharpen your senses. We will surely talk for hours...

However... sometimes these places take so much care of the decoration and style, that the furniture ends up being somewhat uncomfortable, like a place to pass through. Maybe it's a good idea not to sit at the bar, but rather, to sit in one of those comfortable armchairs at the back of the cafeteria.

She seems like a quiet girl, surely she will like the cozy and warm atmosphere that coffee shops usually have. I just hope they serve good coffee there. Cappuccino, my favorite, is an art that not all baristas know how to prepare well. But now what I'm thinking about is that the drink she chooses tastes good, I really hope she enjoys her coffee... and our conversation.

Something I hadn't thought about before is that coffee shop menus are often limited. As far as food goes, they usually include sandwiches, or the typical storefront sweets. Although... I know it's a good idea for a first date to start slowly and not come off as a delusional crazy person trying to surprise her. I know right now that's what I look like, a delusional crazy person trying to surprise her.

Coffee shops usually close earlier than restaurants or bars, for many people caffeine has a limited schedule, although that's not my case... if it were up to me until 11:00 at night I would be in a coffee shop talking and drinking coffee... But I also think that....

Hey hey hey! Enough of overthinking the situation. I proposed a Cafe because I know it's the ideal place to talk and get to know each other better. When I was a kid my father always told me, with his thick Colombian accent "Son, you can recognize a woman by the way she asks for una taza de café".