The rest of the day didn’t progress any better than the morning had, but I was determined to make sure that I didn’t allow it to affect the way that I was feeling, to affect the way that I was treating the customers who were coming in and out of the store—because that was what was happening. The fact that I had decided to open the store as a last minute decision meant that I was only able to serve coffee, and drinks, but the way that I saw it was that that was better than nothing.
I still had the gaping hole in the space where the window was supposed to be, but strangely enough, it didn’t seem like that was bothering anyone who came in and ordered something. Many of the customers were more than willing to make conversation with me, more than willing to conversation about what was happeni
