But something about that man and his Whole Foods coffee got me thinking.
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They were actually really nice -- they offered me food and coffee and the club manager gave me a shirt, which was nice.
Naima served them unsweetened black coffee and asked me to pass around a plate of almonds.
So I invited women who had businesses, and babies, to meet me for coffee and discuss how they were handling it all.
When I walked into the building I was greeted with smiles, and a cup of coffee, which made me feel important, like I belonged there.
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Making coffee, he reminded me, is a deceptively simple endeavor.
When David called me up and invited me to coffee, I felt a rush of gratitude, worried, as every laid off journalist must be, that the world was quickly forgetting me.
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Late in the afternoon on the second day of the retreat, Cantor and his wife, Diana, who happens to be a liberal Democrat, met me for coffee at the Trellis restaurant, in Williamsburg.
In a neighborhood full of coffee shops, she had brought me to an empty room.
It can show you an offer from a local coffee bar for a pick-me-up.
One day in his office, Udall picked up some tabloids from his coffee table and waved them at me.
He offered me a cup of coffee and insisted that I sit on a comfortable upholstered chair while he perched on a cheap plastic one.
Goban Askeri, who works in another coffee house in Iskan, proudly shows me his Barcelona jersey.
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"Because I didn't drink coffee, he was assigned to get me a chocolate doughnut, " she told an audience that included Michael Douglas and Sarah Jessica Parker.
The next morning, over coffee in the GHF courtyard, Sarun told me he had first visited the main Banteay Chhmar ruin in 1997.
Carlos knew just how I took my coffee, and would stay up waiting for me if I came home late at night.
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But, this morning after my third cup of coffee, a couple thoughts jumped out at me from yesterday on how to ask for help well in all situations.
She would usually send me to ask whether it was coffee or tea that he wanted, if he was expecting anyone for lunch, or if there was anything else he needed before she left.
After coffee Sarun grabbed a couple of umbrellas and took me on a tour of the site.
Instead, listeners like me have to seek them out in coffee shops, in the small clubs or on Internet sites like MySpace.
As I walked toward the elevator choking back tears, my boss told me to pick him up a Starbucks coffee while I was out.
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If you find me, I'll buy you a coffee and we'll become friends.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to get another cup of coffee in my Philadelphia Flyers coffee mug.
Another friend tells me he was sitting in a tiny cafe having coffee a few days ago, when a young man in his 20s turned up, pale and shaken.
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