Freshly roasted coffee aroma engulfs the space of the cafe. Like Pavlov's dogs they all simultaneously sip this divine drink and share a smile of pleasure only coffee addicts would understand. Also it provokes talk about health benefits of coffee beans. Even if there weren't any, someone would definitely made something up, but luckily coffee is healthy indeed. As they say.
Very appropriately on the walls of the coffee shop there were pictures of poor villagers gathering coffee beans.
"The good old good days",- with nostalgie for a fallen Empire, said one of the Brits. "I'm sure Brexit will make Britain Great again. We don't need all these middlemen in the Brussels setting the rules. As we did before we will do again and conduct direct trade. Just like in the olden days", - he said with endearment in voice.
Sometimes there would be real discussion or just an opposing view taken for arguments or comedy value. The other Brit didn't seem to support that point of view his hard won relaxed demenour decided to pass this one without being emotionally attached.
The Australian just laughed. "Every fallen nations want to become great again nowdays". He then said in an almost apologetic manner as though afraid of being interrupted that he "doesn't care about politics".
-Don't worry, Bradley, we're not going to talk about politics, said pro EU-Brit, - to be honest I don't care about it, I don't understand politics.
The first Brit looked too involved in his IPhone flitting between silvers chart movement hoping for an upperwand super cycle and conspiracy theory sites with all seeing eye and all smelling nose.
The local was either apathetic or didn't want to step into discussion knowing where it may lead.
For some time everyone merged into their devices checking fb news feed, latest economic articles on crypto currency or dating apps.
While it's understandable why expats have free time and enjoy currency exchange rate (otherwise why would they expatriate to Eastern Europe) their local friend had his own reasons.
An unemployed former translator, he has his own philosophical philosophy. He's ahead of his colleagues who don't yet know they will be replaced by robots so he has already made room for them in the work place.
"Why not to let google translate work 7 days a week, 24 hours a day",- he says sipping a capuccino. As a clever owner of a humble passive income he passively observes the rest of the competitive world, preferring economy class living. His philosophy is similar to Henry Ford who disliked overpaying for non necessities.
Well, our friend certainly is not Henry Ford but he follows his example being frugal and wears his father's coat.
-See her reply, - screamed the Australian breaking the silence,- she's cute and funny.
In a way they had something in common with the local guy. It would seem they both were still in search of something. Statistically 10 years and 500 interviews later our local still happily unemployed. 500 dates in the past years and Bradley still single to continue the search whilst is almost an end in itself.
That worked well in a way as they could still enjoy coffee mornings together talking usual stuff.
They all are in a way ahead of others. This is what future generations will do when robots take their jobs.
Become coffee shop crowd.
next episode Next Episode http://steemit.com/comedy/@dovetail/expats-episode-2-bradley-lost-in-translation. Cheers :)