咖啡店店员的名字

类别：生活方式

讲述常客打破一年的沉默询问店员名字，在陌生城市中收获温暖连接的故事。

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I went to the same coffee shop every morning for a year. 整整一年，我每天早上都去同一家咖啡店。

Medium latte, oat milk. 中杯拿铁，燕麦奶。

The same young woman made it almost every day. 几乎每天都是同一个年轻姑娘给我做。

I knew she was left-handed. 我知道她是左撇子。

I didn't know her name. 但我不知道她叫什么名字。

It's strange, isn't it? 挺奇怪的，对吧？

You can see a person three hundred times and never ask. 你明明见过一个人三百次，却从来没问过对方叫什么。

One Tuesday, there was no line. 有个周二，店里没人排队。

I heard myself say, "I'm sorry, 我听到自己开口说：“不好意思，

I've been coming here for a year. 我都来这一年了，

What's your name?" 还不知道你叫什么呢？”

She looked surprised. 她看起来有点意外。

Then she smiled. 接着她笑了笑。

"Maya. “我叫玛雅。

What's yours?" 你呢？”

The next morning I walked in, still half asleep, 第二天早上我走进去，人还没完全睡醒，

and before I reached the counter, she called out: "Morning, David! 还没走到吧台，她就喊道：“早上好啊，大卫！

The usual?" 还是老样子吗？”

It was the same latte. 咖啡还是那杯拿铁。

I promise you it tasted better. 但我敢保证，喝起来就是更香了。

In a city of two million strangers, there was now one fewer. 在这座有两百万陌生人的城市里，现在少了一个。