Jammmming

One of the best things about living in this town is you never know just what you will find. A few weeks back, my future roommate, Megan, and I were sitting in a Starbucks off of Belmont. This Starbucks was very busy, almost impossible to find a seat. We see a woman sitting at a table and finishing her Grande latte. We start to hover a bit (hoping she will get the message) and she says "I will be up in a second you can have this table" BINGO. (Your own table in a Starbucks on a Saturday is not an easy find!) The woman takes her good old time getting up, and her conversation topics were a bit bizarre, but that’s awesome. She sat there talking about puppies and all kinds of crazy things and it was just funny.

So, she leaves. We are sitting enjoying our hot beverages and this man sitting behind Megan is ROCKING OUT… like not a little bit, but a lot. He is a grungy old man with long grey hair all knotted together pulled into a ponytail. If I had to guess his age, I would assume he’s about 55 or so. Let me remind you, he is ROCKING OUT, sitting on a bar stool looking out onto Belmont Street. His heads is banging, his feet are a tapping and he is lost in the jams coming out of his headphones. At one point he was thrusting his body so violently in his seat his Starbucks card falls out of his pocket and onto the floor. He was starting to cause a bit of a scene with his head banging and hip thrusting in the window of the Starbucks.

…Just then, a girl about our age walks up to him and starts a completely serious conversation. She asks him what he is listening to and when he says “The Killers” I almost spit my drink out, this was not a “Killers” kind of jam, but whatever, I don’t judge. She starts talking to him about MGMT and gets her iPod out for him to listen, they start a legit conversation and swap phone numbers to meet up later that night. This girl was super cute, like short blonde hair, cute outfit, designer bag, and he, well.. you can read his description above.

Like I stated earlier, you will never know what you find in this city, its awkward and amazing all at once.