Coffee House Group pt. 2
The Coffee House Group…
How in the world am I to describe such an amorphous entity as the CHG? Methinks this cries out for bullet points.
1 – We were a completely unofficial group. No dues, no membership applications, no secret handshakes. (And I’m sure we would have enjoyed a secret handshake.)
2 – All you had to do to become a member was be friends with a pre-existing member and hang out at the UC Davis Coffee House.
3 – I have no idea how many people were part of the CHG. The “membership” was constantly in a state of flux as people dropped in and out, graduated or just plain drifted away.
4 – The group ALWAYS sat in the same place in the Coffee House. You see, the Coffee House is L-shaped, and the CHG always sat in the wing of the L that connected directly to the Student Union. Incidentally, the spot we hung out was also next to the espresso and pizza bars. This may have had some small influence on our positioning. Anyway, the CHG would sit here even if that meant waiting to for other students to vacate “our” tables.
5 – The tables in this area were these tiny little round café style tables, completely unsuitable for large group gatherings. So, whoever was already sitting down would watch, vulture like, for nearby tables to empty. Then, crying, “Annex!” they would grab the empty table and drag it over to join the current group. I believe I once saw the CHG sitting around a collection of ten or more tables, and we were still crowded.
6 – What did the CHG do when we all sat together. Well we played cards (rarely), argued (daily), told jokes and stories (god help us), debated everything from religion and history to the death penalty (daily), ate pizza (hourly) and generally had a good time.
7 – Were we all friends and did we all like each other? Uh… no. Some of us were arch enemies!
8 – What did we do away from the coffee house? Hung out at each other’s house and apartments (sometimes), went to class (rarely), ate more pizza (always), allegedly painted street signs to look like the Bat Signal (hearsay?), partied (whenever possible), worked (alas), and went to SCA meetings and events (UH OH!).
There’s that darned SCA again. I just couldn’t escape! Read more when I publish The Coffee House Pt 3 next Monday!
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July 9th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
3 tables is not enough, we must annex the Sudetenland!
Were you there one of the times that Dog carried a table in on his back from another part of the Coffee House?
July 9th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Oh my, yes I was. I’d forgotten about that. I also remember you and I going into the other sections to steal chairs for our group. There were never enough chairs. LOL!