Settled in one of the very comfortable overstuffed chairs at the local Starbucks, I noticed something I had not previously.
The place was as crowded as usual, probably 30-plus people either in line to order, waiting for their orders or, like me, sitting, eating, drinking, watching, reading, talking. All very typical but this time I noticed that the demographics of the customers ranged from pre-adolescent girls and boys, complete with mouths full of braces, drinking their double vanilla crème frappuccinos, to a quartet of coffee drinking seniors well into their late ‘60’s, probably mouths full of dentures, as well as all ages in between. A veritable microcosm of the entire population right there in my local Starbucks. Pretty impressive to see an age and gender range as broad as that gathered in one store, particularly one whose primary product is coffee.
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