I bought this coffee that I am now telling you about? I think so, but it's possible that I just saw that cute young couple @bertrayo and @octocel and said: Come on! Invite me for a coffee!
But first, let me tell you briefly what happened before. Between so many coffees that I didn't tell you about, the tea catastrophe happened.
Preamble
I did not make any reference to the event, because I was really scared. It was a hot night at the beach with a mint tea with lemon, very cold, at the edge of the beach.
A stumble after a run. I cut myself on the beautiful glass. They never told you when you were little not to run with glass utensils in your hands? Don't. I got six stitches in the index finger of my right hand. For many days I feared I would no longer be able to draw or write by hand, and I became quite depressed.
My bones did not suffer, but my tendons did. The good news: I can write by hand and on the computer and I can draw.
I am happy again.
Things you don't buy when you buy
My life has been full of coffees.
I have had office coffee, coffee at work meetings, coffees to keep me awake, coffee with the family, super fun after-dinner coffees with friends, coffees to comfort me, coffees to kill hunger, coffees to think, coffees to write and draw.
Coffee has never failed me and it is a ritual in my close circle to invite and be invited for coffee. It is also so in the environment in which I move: almost nothing is done without coffee.
In fact, as in the afternoon at hand, I may have been the one who proposed to have that coffee and someone else ended up paying for it.
What I can say is that there is one thing that, even if I paid, I did not end up paying for.
What did I not pay for with this purchase?
What coffee usually gives you for free: the ability to generate sociability around it.
Sweet Temptation. The coffee shop
This coffee shop is nothing more than a kiosk in a hallway of the Traki mall.
But they do know about coffee. It is run by three very nice and charming girls and they serve coffee in small glass cups accompanied by delicious cookies.
When I go there and when I invite someone to go there I recommend them to drink the espresso or the macchiato. They have a very high quality coffee.
I often go there. Not only to drink their excellent espressos, but to drink the coldest barley malt based drink. It is a bottled drink, very popular, and most Venezuelans love it.
I didn't order it on this occasion, but I often go there to drink it when it is very hot.
A fun afternoon
As you can see in the pictures I bring here, @bertrayo is a real content creator. He always has his camera ready and really takes amazing pictures. We joked about it that afternoon.
He also has the ability to turn little stories into interesting events.
I really like his monochrome photographs, so I made this modest tribute to his talent.
I photographed him photographing the scene that I assumed at some point we would both set up in some Hive post, as indeed is happening as I write these lines.
That afternoon we told stories, we smiled we talked a lot about Hive.
And of all things there was something really valuable that afternoon: I had coffee with my daughter and @bertrayo as three good friends.
And although magazine articles and networks are full of phrases like "your kids can be your best friends" achieving that connection is far from common. Parents somehow always remain parents, so I treasure these moments in my heart with great joy.
All photos were taken by me with my RedmiNote 9.
