We are not sitting next to the main table today. We’re three or four tables over, where Lindsey is seated with a friend from the gym. Lindsey has been trying to explain Bo’s to Katie while they run treadmill next to each other three days a week. Last week Katie asked if she could come [...]
The deck at Bo’s is empty today, Christmas Eve. It’s a freezing cold, overcast afternoon. But if you braved the elements and sat at the center table you’d a see a crumpled, rolled up piece of parchment tied with a thin red ribbon, on the ground next to the table. Cynthia handed several dozen of [...]
Most of the regulars are on the deck today, with Bo himself sitting right at the middle of the center table. Most of the floor is now covered with wrapping paper, ribbon and bows from packages opened earlier. It’s sort of a tradition at Bo’s: two Thursdays before Christmas all the deck crowd show up [...]
Hank, Cynthia and Andy are on the deck today.
Hank-“You’re kidding me, right? Why haven’t I known about this?”
Cynthia-“I’m sorry Hank. I guess we thought you knew. It seems like we talk about it a lot.”
Hank-“Explain it again. People get on a website and suddenly they’re at “Bo’s Café”…but not really?”
Andy-“Right. Sort of.”
Hank-“That makes no [...]
A cold front has moved in off the Pacific and settled over the café. Bo has rolled several heat lamps out onto the deck. Cynthia, Hank and Carlos are huddled next to Steven with several large blankets Carlos brought with him. Most of those usually on the deck have opted for indoor seating. But indoors [...]
