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Breakfast Place Too Good For It’s Own Britches

Be Careful or Your Face May Freeze Like ThatDonna and I went for a bike ride this morn­ing with the inten­tion of end­ing up at the New Moon for muffins and/or bagels. We missed timed our arrival so that we had twenty min­utes to wait before we opened. Donna almost con­vinced the guy putting tables on the side­walk to let us buy our two items to go and leave. Almost. We set­tled down to wait. Peo­ple started to arrive. And more peo­ple. Then some more. Pretty soon there were over a dozen peo­ple wait­ing by the door for 9:00AM. I felt like I was wait­ing to buy the lat­est Harry Pooter Book.

I checked the time on my cycle­com­puter and we still had 10 min­utes to go. Impa­tient with the crowd, the annoy­ing gnats cir­cling me and the time left, I told Donna to for­get it. We wanted to get home to see today’s moun­tain stage of the Tour, so we mounted back up on the tan­dem and started on our way. At the end of the first block towards home I noticed that the time was now just a cou­ple min­utes shy of nine. The siren’s call of a Cran­berry Pecan Muf­fin was too great. We cir­cled a cou­ple more blocks and went back. I went inside to get our stuff while Donna waited out­side. I was 6 or 7 in line. I crept for­ward at a glacial pace (prob­a­bly seemed longer for Donna stand­ing out­side in a gnat cloud) and finally got to order. An Every­thing Bagel for her, the afore­men­tioned Cran­berry Pecan Muf­fin for me and to for­tify our­selves for the 3 mile ride home I bought a cookie to share.

Meal Cost: $4.55
Tip Jar: 45¢
Spent Today: $5.00
Year to Date: $1554.16
Meals out, 89 of a pos­si­ble 603.

Speak­ing of cook­ies, we made a dou­ble batch of Donna’s Famous Choco­late Chip Cook­ies this after­noon and I lost count after eat­ing six…

Started down, still down.
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July 22nd, 2007 | Tags: , | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

4 comments to Breakfast Place Too Good For It’s Own Britches

  • Andrea
    Monday, July 23, 2007 at 6:37 am

    Hey! Save a cookie or two for me :)

  • CT
    Monday, July 23, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    Brian,

    Your new “Cool Breeze Scoop” appears to be hav­ing the same effect on you in the photo that goes along with this post­ing as an open pas­sen­ger win­dow used to have on my Schnauzer…;)

    You’ll have to let us know what the “long term” review is…I’ve been con­sid­er­ing one of these myself.

    CT

  • Brian the Red
    Monday, July 23, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    When we bake cook­ies we each take 4 in a bag for the next day, but the rest go into work for dis­tri­b­u­tion, oth­er­wise we would eat like 12 each a day until they were gone. Right about now I wished we had saved 2 for me too.

  • Brian the Red
    Monday, July 23, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    Donna was tak­ing the pho­tos of me hold­ing my hand just above the wind­shield header sim­u­lat­ing what I think was where the idea for the CBS came from when she started mak­ing fun of me. I stuck my tongue out at her for­get­ting that she had a cam­era in her hand.