Donna 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.
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…
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 286
Hey! Save a cookie or two for me 🙂
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
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.
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.