Translations:Coffee Meetups/10/en
There is also a social convention worth naming: the ending. Coffee meetups usually conclude by mutual drift rather than announcement, and both people are free to close them. Ending on time, warmly, is not a rejection.
| Safety=Public meeting spaces are commonly recommended for first encounters because they distribute a degree of visibility and make leaving straightforward. This is not about assuming bad intent. It is about preserving options in a situation where neither person yet has much information about the other.