It’s Hard To Get Started In The Morning

I have a favorite breakfast bakery and cafe near my office. When I’m asked to get breakfast for a work event, they’re the first ones I think of. I go online and place the order, but the earliest time they have available is 8:30; 8:00 would be perfect for me. I go ahead and place the order anyway because I want to get breakfast from them.

As soon as they open that morning, I give them a call and they tell me that, unfortunately, they can’t have my order ready early. No problem. I shift some things around so I can make it work.

I get to the cafe at 8:35 and there’s a line to the door. The guy behind the counter is not in a hurry; of the people in line in front of me, I see five of them leave because it’s taking too long. I finally get to the front of the line at 8:45 and tell them I’m picking up an order… and they tell me they haven’t even started putting it together yet.

It takes until 8:55 — a full ten minutes later and twenty-five minutes after my pick-up time — for everything to be packed and ready. I race back to the office for our 9:00 start time and everyone barely gets a chance to grab something to eat before the meeting kicks off.

I love that cafe and will go there on my own again — as long as I have fifteen minutes to spare, apparently! — but I won’t be ordering their takeaway breakfast again!