Every Cafe Should Do This No. 2: The Trident.
Followup to our post on The Cup’s Cell Phone Booth, here’s yet another reason why I love the Trident Cafe & Booksellers in Boulder, Colorado.
(Of course, we all sneak in a call or plenty of texts…but the atmosphere is far more conducive to conversation and work and reading thanks to the absence of over-loud one-way conversations).
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I have to say as a person who spent my first years of serious reading in the Trident in the late '90s, it's vexing that now the anti-mobile policy has been relaxed. People used to ask you to step outside. The advent of the power outlets is also a bit off-putting. With so many options for a modern-style cafe, I liked the throw-back elements.
Coffee is still great ten years later though.
Yah man but still few enough outlets that one's encouraged to, you know, read or talk once in awhile. Love the place.
Thoughtful! I hear both your minds…I just hate too much cell phone blabbing…a little is okay!
…and now, Fog & Smog!!
Yes, I understand, then again, I am of two minds, a coffee shop can also be seen as a place where people go to talk, read books etc… perhaps we need to work on ourselves and on letting others do as they please… however, as I said I am of two minds, sometimes I also like the silence and the ability to get deeper into a book…. then again… maybe it is all about accepting what is happening in the moment, and trusting there is a reason…