There’s a kind of dance that accompanies these situations, where minutes of your time are about to be eaten up by this round of Whose Coffee is it Anyway?
The first time he called me Sadie I didn’t think much of it. It was still early in the morning and it was more than likely I had mumbled when he’d asked for my name minutes earlier. The second time, I wondered just how bad my diction was. By the tenth time, I walked away from the takeaway coffee window wondering if I had spent my entire life underestimating how cool I truly was and thinking maybe I could actually pull off being a Sadie.
Stepping into the warmth of the cafe, I saw him and a waiter looking at the morning’s newspaper. “Morning,” I said. Looking up from the pages, the barista flipped to another page and lifted the paper up. “Is that you?” he asked, pointing to my photograph. I replied yes, and tried to change the subject by commenting on the music that was playing. Grabbing a coffee cup and starting to write out my order, he looked up.“Oh, um, well, that’s … that’s my name,” I said sheepishly.
The new barista was studious and appeared to be as uninterested in small talk as I was. I gave him my order, tapped my phone and resumed my mindless phone scrolling. At last, I thought calmly, a solution. Sure, my life as Sadie was fun while it lasted, but who was I kidding? I was no more a Sadie than Marilyn Monroe was a Norma-Jean.Clearly frustrated at having me ignore him the first two times he’d called my name, the new barista walked over to me and glared. “Candy, your coffee is ready.
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