Switch it up !!

4th may 2022

I read a book once about a man, an English writer who was a very successful, self accomplished and principled man. He was indeed a great writer and novelist who even though was successful in writing a lot of books about love was yet to experience what the love of a woman felt like. He only imagines what it must feel like with things his friends tell him or what he sees in the movies but never has he experienced it for once in his life time.

He was a man that believe in a system. Wake up by 4;30 am in the morning. Do a routine meditation everyday for 30 minutes. Brush his teeth and take his bathe for 20 minutes. Be ready fully clothed on his regular white shirt, dark brown or navy blue suit at exactly 5:30. Then leaves for work. He takes the same path to work everyday, stops by the same coffee shop everyday, orders the same combination of coffee latte and goes his way to his office where he works part-time as auditor-in-chief for a huge firm.

Dave( his name) never liked to switch things up. Even when he and his friend would step out for a drink at the bar or go out clubbing he always had to have a plan or a system on how he thought the night should play out which made him not so fun to be with which also meant he wasn’t popular with the women. Plus he was a little shy and nerdy. Whenever he was at a gathering or an event he wouldn’t take over 3 glasses of wine no matter how good it tasted Or even dance around too much, not to talk of socializing he was a very keep-to-plan kind of man. He believed these things should have a plan that leads up to them. The same way he feels about his love life.It was like he was stuck on doing the same thing over and over again with no change or spice to it; which is not entirely a bad thing but as the saying goes “you can not keep doing the same things in the same way and expect a different result”.

To be fair he wasn’t entirely sad about his whole not-getting-girls situation but he always wondered what he must feel to be spontaneous or to careless about the system or what it would mean to not have a plan for once you know. Just watching life play out and following the flow. His friends and family would always tell him to try and mess up a little. They would say to him “Dave live a little” which he always found absurd but he understood what they meant. All that was left was the courage to go through life without a plan. Until…..

That fateful day, he got up from bed had his regular routine and left his house for work at exactly 5:30. When he stopped at the coffee shop for his regular cup of coffee. Someone grab his order mistakenly. It was boldly written on the cup of coffee “Dave” and not “dane” but she grab it anyways and was about to leave when someone spoke to her ..

excuse me ma’am but that order was meant for me.

dane- coffee latte with double cream sugar and milk ?

Dave- yes that would be my order and if you still doubt you could look at the name that was written on the paper clipped to the coffee cup you are holding.

Dane-oh i am so sorry why don’t you just get the next one I am pretty sure mine is the next and we have the same order.

Dave- no that would mean I would be mix up my schedule and I have to leave this coffee shop at exactly 6:00am it is already 6:01.

Dane-oh come on you don’t have to be like that it was a mistake on my path and I am sorry but I already took a sip from this cup besides I am sure mine won’t take even up to 2 mins.

Dave didn’t oblige he insisted on getting back his cup or he would leave. After about 5 minutes of going back and forth. He left the woman with “his”cup of coffee; stormed out of the coffee shop furious not because she took a order that was meant for me but because she made him loose track of his well label plan or Everyday routine. He got to work pissed of and for the largest fraction of the day at work he couldn’t do much. He just kept remembering this weird lady at the coffee shop who took his order and wasn’t even polite enough to give it back.

He was immediately stressed out so he left for work earlier than usual(which would mean his schedule is more f*ck*d up). He got home still very pissed and angry after a while he decided he was going to find a way to talk to the strange lady again. At least give her a piece of his mind she has to know the grave sin she has commuted against him.*he mumbled*.

The next morning he woke up at his regular time got to the coffee shop and waited to see if he could find this strange woman that came yesterday. But guess what ? She never showed this made him even more pissed.

“so she isn’t even a regular here and she had the guts to steal my coffee ”. At this point you must be thinking the same thing I thought what is so special about this lady that makes him even more angrier every-time he recalls this incident also he is not forgetting that he is messing up his regular every day routine but he was still determined to know about the strange lady. I was so curious he started asking questions about her.

And for a 2 weeks he waited and didn’t find her until one fateful morning. ……

*listen I have to go now I feel tired already can I continue this story tomorrow? Yeah? Thanks for reading* Leave a comment if you enjoyed the story and want to see the concluding part.

Jumper✍️.

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