The other thing is that if you're in a coffee shop or somewhere in public, people are going to look at you like you have some issues.
d) lapsing back into freak-out mode because I have so much to do. - or - e) going back to the park, to another coffee shop, or somewhere else in the hope that I won't see anyone else I know.
It doesn't have to be formal; meet at your house or at a local coffee shop or somewhere similar.
You can simply say you have extra tickets to a movie or a show and invite your crush along, ask your crush if he's hungry or wants to grab a snack or coffee somewhere, or ask if he wants to go for a walk in the park.
Go to a coffee shop, library or somewhere where you can't watch TV, sleep or play computer games".
Take your coworker out for a coffee or for lunch, to somewhere nice where talking about the matter is easier and not pressured.
"If I have £B in my wallet and I go out for a coffee somewhere with three coffee shops, and only one of them takes £B, then I'm going to go to the one that takes £B," he says.
In addition to those you might expect – money, sex, time with loved ones, time alone – people said sunshine, space to think, writing with really sharp pencils, extra strong coffee, arriving somewhere early, a baby's first smile of the morning, beans on toast (with lots of cheese) and feeding the ducks.
To the dangerously dwindling reading public — and to the serious, unshaven young man in a coffee shop somewhere in Brooklyn, just now shooting me a dirty look as he bangs out his essay on the death of the critic and the death of literature and the death of our attention spans on his shiny laptop — I humbly suggest that the situation is more stable than we suppose.
Because there I was, post-wedding-weekend, at a coffee shop somewhere off Highway 101 on my way back to Los Angeles, in the surreal position of proving to skeptical strangers on the other end of credit hot lines that I was who I said I was.
