I had when I was young. Good times.
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Does the local pub count
Large coffees in a coffee shop are about the same price as a pint these days so you might as well.
Unless you've got the motor of course, then don't be a dafty.
Maybe I'm just showing my age but I felt a bit of a gut punch when I asked for two large coffees at the till, and a tenner wasn't enough to cover them. Fuck me.
U clearly are not aware of Australian alcohol taxes. We are getting fucked. A pint is now $11
I pay a lot more for a large coffee at a brand store (Starbucks, Costa,...) than I do for a pint at my local bar.
Alcohol is fairly inexpensive here. People need to live, somehow.
In high school in the '90s we were pretty close. It was a handful of places but not that many, basically anywhere we could get away with sitting for hours nursing a coffee or iced tea. If they had pinball, big bonus. Maybe not every day, but certainly many days in the week.
I know of several retiree groups that meet up for coffee first thing in the morning. One day I hope to part of one :(
Did sex in the city use the same cafe all the time? I missed that I guess.
Didn't they used to go the same place for brunch? I could be wrong
Maybe, thats why I was asking. I def dont remember anything as constant as the cafe in friends.
No they famously try new places all the time. The only time there’s a repeat place is if it has significance to a plot point. They were all well off though.
Ahhhh I see thanks
Jitters
Fridays, after 1700hrs, typically at least 4 people, many times 6 and occasionally as much as 12-14.
Hanging @ local brewpub that was our old Fire House. Most all of us have been good friends between 45-55 years. I'm grateful to have my "crew".
Do you know how much a fucking CHEF works?!!! Wtf, Monica wouldn't have time to spent all day in a coffe shop
she wasn't always a chef
As a young adult, last year in school and first year out I kind of had this. There was a bar in our town where we went to, not every day but very often. It was a great time!
I’m a hardcore introvert. I don’t have the energy to maintain friendships like this.
I used to hang out in the same park.
I dunno, even if we check in first, doesn't anyone else have any effectively semi standing "see you there" meets? (Like, where if someone wasn't going to be there, they'd probably text you.)
Pre texting, I suppose the alternative was either make plans each and every time by calling a few people or, a standing arrangement, like coffee wherever, call me if you can't make it otherwise I'll see you there.
Not really. Good coffee shops and pubs are always full. So most of the time we just settle for the place which have free seats that day.
Not everyday but my friend ground have our hangout space that we can go every weekend, which is one friend's shop.
When more of my friends lived a walkable distance from me it was more the pub round the corner a few times a week. Now people have dispersed a bit, things need to be a bit more scheduled and so we're less likely to fall into a default place
Coffee shops sadly don't tend to be open late so they're not really gonna work as the default place to casually meet mates for anyone in a 9-5 job IMO.
I miss my 24-7 coffee shop! I got to know so many people and still have some great friends from hanging around in the mid aughts to teens. Since COVID the trend seems to be closing earlier. I'm not into it.
Not anymore but a bit younger, sure. There was one bar and food spot that you would always run into a few people you knew. Your closer friends more often, but all the regulars grew to know each other. Was great fun
I remember my parents went to one once or twice a week in the nineties for a while.
We lived in a tiny town; I'm pretty sure it was the only cafe there.
My aunt did this in the late 80s and early 90s.
She used to visit the one local burger franchise so much that all the staff knew her and she basically had her own reserved booth. Her husband, 2 kids and her would be there most days a week.
They lived across the country from us, but whenever we stayed with them, we were also at the burger place almost daily.