knitting in the bathroom at Starbucks

It was a very interesting knit night last Tuesday. I stayed home for a while waiting for the storms, with possible large hail, to blow on through. Then I had to take a longer route to get there because there was a jackknifed 18-wheeler on the expressway route I usually take.

It was a small group, partially because of the weather, but we were well into the knitting when a Starbucks employee came to talk to our group. She said her manager had called, and there was a wall-cloud in the area with a possible tornado and they were locking the door and going into the back room. And did we want to leave or stay? And she recommended we not stay at the front of the store where the building is pretty much all glass. We stayed. We moved our meeting to the bathroom. Now this is a smallish Starbucks and has the single user bathroom configuation. And we were six knitters. One knitter had a "seat", and the rest of us had plenty of floor for sitting or standing. Andthe lights stayed on. There was knitting. And book reviewing. And phoning husbands and family members to check the weather and send them to take cover. (What did we do before cell phones?)

And as it turned out there was no tornado in our immediate area.



more later,
j