Seeing as this blog is paritally named after the City of Good Living, maybe I should cover something San Carlos once in a while. Well, about a month or maybe even a month and a half ago, San Carlos officially satisfied any citizen's caffine addiction when they opened a Peet's coffee. For most places, this really wouldn't matter, but for San Carlos, who's downtown consists of one street, this caused the perfect aroma of pandamonium and a shot of praise. (Get ready for coffee analogies)
Some background: Laurel Street Main Drag consists of three healthy blocks where there's a heavy concentration of shops, restaurants, town essentials (market, banks, post office) and of course coffee. On the three blocks, and I'm not even going into side streets, we have 2 Starbucks (yes, that did make the 5:00 news), two mom & pop coffee houses, two bakerys that do sell fancy coffee (as Nonni would call it, essentialy anything that's not black coffee from a Mr. Coffee) and now a Peet's. That's a whole lot of coffee for a 3 block stretch. And if you continue down beyond Laurel Main Drag, there's even more, although they are fewer and farther between. I get the jolts just thinking about all that caffine bouncing off the sidewalks.
And the people in my circuit were somewhat miffed that they were putting another large coffee chain on Laurel, almost directly across from Plantation (one of the mom & pops). As if having two Starbucks on one street were bad enough! But, Plantation always has a steady stream of customers (Lady Di has her spot staked out on Friday mornings), yummy coffee, and friendly atmostphere. Some say (I won't name names) "boo Peet's" when the subject is brought up and a few select have become regulars at the popular chain (and I mean popular, there's always a huge line). But only time will tell I suppose.
But this begs the question, with all of these shops, the corporate blended in with mom & pops, was San Carlos abnormally sleepy in the past? Are we all picky citizens when it comes to a cup of coffee? Or does everyone happen to feel the need for a coffee date at the same time which is a fire hazard so they thought it was necessary to open as many as possible? I have no idea. Maybe the corporations want to sneak in on our small town livin. Who knows! I think this is a bit of overkill though, why won't they open another post office so we don't spend 45 minutes in line, especially during the holiday? Now that would satisfy a fire-hazard. Seeing as our small city is brooooke, looks like that won't happen, so looks like coffee houses it is.
Now if they only opened up a Coffee Bean...
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