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Sunday Morning Affirmation

10/1/2014

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      …Continued from yesterday:

     Sunday morning at 7:00 am we checked out of IHSP Chicago...

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    ...and after giving a final  glance to the  sign posted in the hostel's window:
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...we began rolling our suitcases along the now-quiet streets of Bucktown
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...to the Damen station to catch the train downtown to pick up our Megabus back to Columbus.
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Damen station,  Chicago,
Sunday, 7:30 am.

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    We got off at the Clinton stop  then walked several blocks through downtown...
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    ...to our Megabus stop in front of Union Station.
        As we'd arrived 45 minutes early we decided to go to the Dunkin' Donuts across the street from Union Station for some breakfast.

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    The store was crowded this early Sunday morning, but had a cheerful, friendly feel thanks to the  gospel music that eminated from the speaker system and the peppy wait staff, a young guy and a lively middle-aged lady who had their own system for rolling out the customers' orders.
    While the youngster rang up the orders and rustled up the drinks the lady, who stood by the food prep area, called to the next person in line:
    "Whatchu want, Baby?"
    As she filled the orders she'd occasionally call back for a clarification:
    "What, you don't want no bacon wit dat egg croissant?"
    "Baby, you want you some cream cheese wit dat bagel?"
    After I placed our order she called back to me, "Now, Sugar, I ain't got but one plain bagel left.  You getchu somethin' else, all right?"
    So Tom ended up getting the last of the plain bagels with his sausage and cheese bagel, while
    I settled for an onion bagel  and a jelly doughnut with an iced tea, with which  I was ultimately quite satisfied.
     Though all the seats in the Dunkin' Donuts were taken, one young man did offer me his.  But I thankfully declined and Tom and I opted to stand and enjoy the window scene of the city's comings goings.

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    As we ate and drank together some of our fellow customers struck up conversations with each other or with the friendly food-prep lady, who seemed to have perfected the art of chatting whilst working.
    Some of the customers hummed or sang along to the gospel music.  I didn't know any of the lovely, inspiring  tunes that were playing and so I couldn't sing along, though I would have liked to.  It felt like Sunday morning.
    As we left I thanked our two food providers for the food and for the  music.  I told the food-prep lady that I felt like I was in church.
    "Sugar, you is,"  she replied.

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    The view from the window of the Dunkin' Donuts across the street from Union Station, Chicago.
4 Comments
Patti
10/1/2014 01:33:36 am

As the website's been having some bugs lately, this is a test comment to see if the comment section is working okay now.

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Romaine
10/1/2014 04:37:21 am

Loved the part about how being in Dunkin Donuts was like being in church! Great story! Reminds me of when I was in high school. Me, Jim and Mike would tell mom we were going to church and then head out to the Sunday service at to "Our Lady of Dunkin Donuts" (as we called it). We would collaborate on a sermon just in ask mom would ask.

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joseph
10/1/2014 05:44:40 am

if that dunkin donuts was out of bagels by that hour of the day then they don't make anything fresh there - it is all trucked in made already. I could not find a comment section so I clicked on the comments already there. I wonder how the first comment got on. we used to go to the playground before church - before we could drive.

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Patti
10/1/2014 07:41:57 am

Ah, I'd forgotten all about you guys and "Our Lady Of Dunkin Donuts"! Well, maybe you were actually in church, too,
just a different church.
Joe, I don't guess they were making the donuts fresh there, though hopefully another truck was coming by soon. Sorry you're having so much trouble with the comments. Weebly just made a bunch of changes to the site, now it's full of bugs, including in the comments section. It's so annoying! Hopefully they'll get things squared away pretty soon.

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