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New Experience: Lunch Break

I spent my first lunch break in two months sitting at the Kaladi Brothers downtown cafe eating soup, sipping coffee, and attempting to do some homework while being distracted by a early-20s female loudly going on and on and on about all of the world's problems and why no one sees the obvious solutions.

I texted Steve the best parts of her ranting, how seeing a swastika makes her feel angsty and how Alaska is basically a socialist state just like Montreal and how she has very specific preferences on which news magazines to read but she can't afford them so she just reads the headlines while in the grocery checkout line. And it just went on and on, hardly leaving any space for her early-40s male companion to ask quiet questions.

After about a half hour she said that she needed to get going to someplace or another and they left in opposite directions.

I looked up from my books and my soup and my furious texting to catch the eye of a guy wearing earphones and sitting behind a laptop. We exchanged a half smile and shook our heads, grateful that she had gone.