A Bass Clarinet in a Jazz world

the woke left: young and fashionable. visible tattoos. often enjoys matcha, lavender flavoring, oat milk, and cold foam. pretty decent customers.

sweet old man: drinks very sweet iced lattes, pays in cash, puts all of his change in the tip jar. sometimes orders hot coffee and i get scared that his shaky old man hands will spill it and he'll get burned but that has not yet happened and god willing never shall.

evil old man: only wants drip coffee and declares it ridiculous that any other form of coffee exists. some variants only want americanos and these variants are even scarier. watch out.

sweet old woman: might need her daughter's help to order but is very bubbly and open to trying new things. compliments baristas freely and frequently.

evil old woman: does not want coffee and only wants sweet tea or soda. will not tip even if she spends three hours in the shop repeatedly asking baristas to fetch things for her.

errand husband: either stiltedly recites an order to you or shows you the order in their texts/notes app. needs to step out of line and make a phone call if you ask any follow-up questions.

grindset girlie: always wearing scrubs, an apron, and/or a name tag. orders the exact same thing every day and knows the exact change she'll need to pay for it. her regular order is both extremely caffeinated and extremely sweet.

#mamabear: is actively wrangling two to four children while ordering. order changes repeatedly because the children cannot decide if they want a muffin or a cookie or apple juice or chocolate milk etc. for some reason these women are always wearing an article of clothing or carrying some personalized item that says "mama" on it.

schoolchildren: band of two to eight adolescents hanging out after school. extremely indecisive but generally quite polite and tip well.

amnesiac in love: grown adult who needs their partner to tell them what they like. gets asked a question about their own preferences and turns to their partner to answer for them. generally acts like a shy child looking to their guardian for behavioral cues if you try to interact with them and only wants to talk to mommy i mean their wife.

Played some fetch with the Jolly Ball and when that got boring, walked for 1.3 miles. On our walk:

I asked him to walk around a garden perimeter (very difficult, did not like it)

Heeled passed a fella working his Mal in an apartment dog park (very good! Only briefly distracted by potential new friend)

He offered me barkour on top of a retaining wall (more scary for me than him because it was a tall wall and I had to rescue him aka lift him off the wall)

Tried The Creek again (didn't like it much)

And did down-stays as people walked by!

Then we went to puppy class and he was actually locked in! We worked at Petsmart yesterday and I think that really helped. He did amazing stays and recalls - like I was able to drop the leash and walk away completely, back turned and everything. His heels were better (would that I was a better trainer) - good enough to pass but he still wants to peace out after a few steps.

He also stayed in place or in a down-stay for most of class AND didn't bark at anyone the whole class! Not a single bark! I'm actually really proud of him.