What @MOSSYELFIE said but also for your coffee shop dilemma, order decaf. Even if it's not on the menu they all usually have it. Or get a hot chocolate, or an orange juice, or a soda, or a pastry. You can still go to your coffee meet ups and get a little treat. I know the importance of meeting up for coffee. You could also suggest a different place tho, usually I feel like a dessert is a good stand in. Boba, fro-yo, ice cream, cookie shop, bagels, that sort of thing.
You don’t need to order anything else, this is a perfect combo and any half decent coffee shop will be able to get this for you. If you can’t get it at your fav coffee shop then swap coffee shops.
It's so lawless. You’ll see the weirdest things and no one will care. People are so unabashedly human here. Dead expressions, exhaustion, boredom. You’ll get a coffee, someone else will get a bloody mary, the time is irrelevant. Your priorities will be tested, everything costs at least three times as much as it should, it won’t matter. I love liminal spaces.
