I’m a little distracted today. Of course we all have problems, and they seem to pile up on Fridays, as if the world was going to end during the weekend. I walk to the coffee shop around the corner, not really wanting to do anything. I order a cappuccino, giving the girl an automatic smile that doesn’t reach my eyes. I look around and see people coming and going: one guy looking as sleepy as I am; another one talking over the phone, barking orders to someone who must be an employee; a couple of teenage girls giggling and chewing on blueberry muffins, because that’s what we do when we are teenagers.
The girl calls my name, I grab my cappuccino and turn around to leave the shop. As I do that I trip on something. Someone. Good Lord, there’s a guy in a wheel chair and I was distracted enough not to see him! I spill half of my coffee on his red sweater.
“Fuck! I’m sorry, sir, I wasn’t looking, and now there’s cappuccino all over you and I…” I say, mortified. I tend to ramble when I’m embarrassed.