Today I witnessed a very peculiar and yet quite wonderful species at STL Bread Co. A chap was sitting at a table with his coffee and a newspaper. He was brought his meal. I glanced quickly up from my sketchbook because I heard the worker ask if this was "ok?"
The man had been brought three very well done bagels. I tried to focus back on the sketchbook-- but to my surprise the man said thank you. I kept thinking someone else was going to join him. Could he really have ordered 3 bagels? Yes, in fact he then proceeded to butter each half of the three burnt bagels. I could hear the scraping of the knife as I attempted to draw something other than circles within my compositions. The man buttered them all completely and placed first the bottom bagel, butter side up and then its corresponding top, butter side up on top of its mate. After he completed all three bagels in this same manner, he placed all the butter tubs inside one another. Then each of the bagels was turned into two stacks. The bottoms, butter side up in one stack and the tops, butter side up in the other. He then opened his newspaper and began to read. I witnessed while even-though the bagels were now in two distinct stacks the man would eat first a bottom and then a top. Each of the piles slowly depleted. Time didn't allow for me to watch this loveliness play itself out completely but in general- THIS WAS AWESOME TO SEE.
Curios and curiouser
Bagels three
Burnt and buttered
Stacked and eaten
With the daily
Print and scribble
My sketchbook worn through
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