Before The Reservation: coffee buys the evening a spine

Rafe sketches the pre-dinner pause that makes plans feel chosen instead of rushed.

Photo in my head: small cafe window, navy overshirt, phone face down, coffee cooling while the street decides whether it wants rain.

I like getting close to the reservation early and giving the night ten minutes before it starts. Not to rehearse. To stop dragging the whole day through the door behind me.

A good pre-plan pause has one job: make the first conversation cleaner. Check the route, silence the extra thread, remember one thing you are actually curious about.

Are you an arrive-early person, or do you trust the clock a little too much?

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