Don't Understand

Plants and Coffee

As time marches on, we thought experience/education/wisdom might help us understand some of life's little mysteries. Perversely, it seems the opposite is happening. The list of things we don't understand is growing. Even travel to other countries/cultures hasn't reversed this trend.

Take today for example. The weather was textbook perfect. It was the warmest, sunniest, least windy since we arrived. Got up to 70. Some people were actually wearing shorts. Remember, this is Scotland. Rather than continue on the touristy track we were on last week, rather than put in another big day of hill walking or exercise walking, we chilled. We strolled through the nearby Royal Botanic Garden, parked ourselves on a bench in the sun to read, and stretched out on the manicured grass to relax.

Afterwards, on the stroll back to the flat, a stop for coffee was in order. The English may be a tea drinking lot, but the Scottish are coffee lovers. What we can not understand is why a number of garden products shops sell coffee? How did someone think live plants, flower pots, and coffee went together? See photo. Don't understand. Also, back in Roanoke, don't understand how a shop selling only cupcakes stays in business? Or a shop selling only olive oil? Don't understand. Maybe we don't need to understand.