Java Club

7811 Aurora Avenue North
October 17, 1996

A new Seattle soap opera - As the Coffee Beans Grind
featuring in order of appearance:

A social worker and a juvenile offender;
Cynthia - barista, wears glittering earrings;
AA attendees;
A Woman - dark eyes, possibly of southern European ancestry, imperceptible accent from eastern United States. Stares a lot.
Various:
Muffin Delivery Person aka Hey, man, how's it going?
Instant Coffee Drinkers from Kalamazoo, Michigan
Police Officers

Scene I
3:00pm - raining outside as viewed through the front window.

A social worker and a juvenile offender comment about the black and white historic Seattle photographs hanging on the wall. Cynthia directs AA attendees to the backroom as she opens a new bag of Tim's Cascade Style potato chips. A Woman with a pen and pad of paper either stares at soap operas on the TV or the Various characters filing in and out of the back room

Scene 2
3:05pm - raining outside as viewed through the front window.

Cynthia and Hey, man, how's it going discuss the increase in espresso prices as three Instant Coffee Drinkers read about the miracle cures of lattes outlined in a brown, leather bound book with gold lettering, The East Coat Poet's Latte Recipes for Miracle Cures, they just bought at Magus Books. Cynthia prepares three mochas for them as she directs AA attendees to the back room. A Woman with a pen and pad of paper either stares at soap operas on the TV or the Various characters filing in and out of the back room.

Scene 3
3:15pm - raining outside as viewed through the front window.

Cynthia gossips with two Police Officers who thought they heard someone plot to overthrow Microsoft or plot a scandal featuring Paul Allen and Ken Behring. Cynthia directs AA attendees to the back room. A Woman with a pen and pad of paper either stares at the soap operas on the TV or the Various characters filing in and out of the back room.

Scene 4
3:30pm - raining outside as viewed through the front window.

Cynthia talks to A Woman about how the floating bridge floated away, and how the Hammering Man fell the day it was unveiled, and how the elevator to the top of the Space Needle was stuck halfway up to three hours, and how the Fremont Troll is hollow (after all it is a soap opera).

This day's episode of As the Coffee Beans Grind
is brought to you by the Summer of 1980
when Luke and Laura from General Hospital
captured my imagination as a hopeless romantic
and stifled my creativity as a playwrite.