Look for us at the park next to the Train Depot at our regularly scheduled times!

Coffee Talk is now meeting at the Freight Room in the Venice Train Depot on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 AM to 12 Noon.  Come join us and say, “Hello!”

We were in a small coffee shop.
Two customers arrive.
“5 coffees. 2 for us, 3 pending.”
They pay the 5, they only get 2.

“What’s a pending coffee?” I ask.
“Wait and see.”

More customers.
Two girls get their coffees. They pay normally.

After a while 3 lawyers ask for 7 coffees.
They only drink 3, but paid for the 7.

While we were talking, a poor man enters the shop.
With a soft voice he asks, “Do you have any pending coffee?”

This type of charity was born in Napoli (Naples, Italy).
People pay in anticipation for the coffees and
even meals for others who can’t.

* roughly translated