You’d be surprised just how many people are floating around at 6am looking for coffee or breakfast. People are working harder and longer these days and I’ve got the proof: about 6 years ago I used to catch the city-bound train at 6am to get in to work at 7 and the train was near-empty, I could throw my hands up in the air and wave them around like I just didn’t care, and on occasions I did. But I changed jobs and came back to it a couple of years later and the exact same carriage at the exact same time was like Times Square. I couldn’t throw my hands in the air even if I wanted to. Don’t try to argue with the evidence, it’s airtight.
6:03am Epping — Flinders Street Station (2011)
6:03 Epping to Flinders Street Station (2017)
look what we've become
7am is a fairly standard opening time and to be honest I’ve got no real qualms with it. It’s just that if they opened at 6am they’d be King Dick of the early-risers; a title worthy of any corner office. And while we’re on the topic, the 7:30am opening time is one of the more ridiculous things I have seen in my time as a professional superstar. If you can open at 7:30 you can open at 7. We’ve all had our fair share of awkward moments out the front of cafes at 7:28am with the other early-rising ragamuffins, including the multiple walk-past with the sheepish peer-in; it’s brutal.
(whispers under breath) It’s 7:32 for the record
I’m grateful for cafes open at 6am because life is hard enough as it is.