There’s a café in Tokyo where you can have coffee with capybaras. Capybaras are big rodents - they’re basically dog-sized guinea pigs. And there they are, lolloping around Café Capyba, sitting on sofas, peering into laptops and being stroked by customers.
I thought it was only trendy old London where you got that kind of thing. You can feed them treats, watch them relaxing, or just be (and I’m quoting from their website here) ‘healed by their leisurely presence’. Or I suppose you can have your espresso macchiato sniffed, and subsequently even licked, by a curious capybara.
Healed by their leisurely presence. I like that phrase. You can go out of café capyba feeling better than you went in, and all that’s happened is that you’ve seen a capybara living its (second) best life. I’d like that to be said about me, I think. I don’t know what it is about Matt; I was just healed by his leisurely presence.
Of course it wouldn’t be me at all, it would be whatever glimpse of God in me they see, but nevertheless, it would make a change from absorbing my frequent stresses. Ask Sammy: would you say Matt has a leisurely presence? She may snort.
Interestingly, and bafflingly, café capyba also tell us that:
“During our business hours, we will allocate time for the capybaras to use the restroom.”
I almost want to go all the way to Tokyo, just to find out what this means. Do they toddle off to the bathroom and queue up for the urinals? Does it mean the bathroom is out of bounds while the capybaras are in the cubicles? I remain intrigued.
Anyway, if it helps de-stress the Japanese businessman and the trendy Tokyo tourist, then hey, it’s probably a good thing - so long as the capybaras are looked after properly of course. And it sounds like they get fed treats and given bathroom breaks in between being stroked and cuddled in a cosy coffee shop, which is I think, nice work if you can get it.
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