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早上近9时,在旧金山下城的金融区,这上班族最密集的所在,要领略都市人的生命力,最佳观察点莫如遍布闹市的咖啡店。我在地铁站内新开的星巴克前,远看,重重叠叠的人,衣着鲜亮的专业人士们,面对柜台后那冒着热气的大型咖啡机,似赈济站前的饥民看到粥锅。近看,秩序井然,一条条长队缓缓蠕动。在盈溢咖啡香的街上走,我并没拿着有点烫手的纸杯子,因为已成为不必以咖啡因来激发拼搏能量的退休者。
Nearly 9 o’clock in the morning, in the financial district of San Francisco’s Lower Town, the commonest place for commuters, to appreciate the vitality of urban people, the best observation point is everywhere in the downtown coffee shop. In front of the newly opened Starbucks in the subway station, I looked forward to the crowds of people with bright clothes and the gigantic espresso machine in front of the counter-station steaming large coffee machine. Close look, orderly, long lines creeping slowly. I walked down the street full of coffee and I did not hold a paper cup that was too hot because I had become a retiree who did not have to use caffeine to stimulate hard work.