[URBAN NOTE] Early Morning Toronto

[rfmcdonald]

The Coffee Time at 600 Bloor Street West at 5:30 in the morning is an interesting place to be. It was the only store of any kind open at that time in the morning, as a point of fact, the only place open to face the 2 o'clock closing of the bars and the 6 o'clock opening of the more precocious breakfast restaurants. There were only two other customer-type people in the store when I entered Wednesday morning, an older gentleman on crutches sitting at the front, and hidden so well in the back that I noticed him only after I bought my brekwich, and someone bundled up entirely in thick clothes with a chapped red face in the back who I hadn't noticed on first coming in.