It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. I am thinking about coffee today. I am a morning person, and an early riser, which works out well because I go to bed late too.
I start work between 4:30 and 5:30 each morning. Easy to do but it can’t be done without coffee. I need just a couple of cups of the stuff before I can start working. I can’t go anywhere until I take a shower and get dressed but I have to have coffee before I can do either.
On a recent business trip I ended up in a hotel room without a coffee maker in it. I couldn’t leave the room without getting dressed and there was no coffee so I couldn’t get dressed. I fought the feeling of panic and some how remembered how to push the "0" push button on phone in the room.
I called the front desk and got the usual "we don’t have room service until 6:30" line. I think I called at 4:30 in the morning. When I started getting upset the person I was talking to got kind of defensive. When I started sobbing he couldn’t understand what I was saying so I just hung up. As difficult as it was for me I got dressed and walked in the dark three blocks until I found a restaurant that was open.
They didn’t understand the coffee to go thing. I t wasn’t the kind of restaurant where people get coffee to go. I think eventually the night manager could tell by the look on my face that he was talking to a desperate woman and that it would be best to accommodate my request so that I would leave quickly and quietly. I had to walk 6 blocks to get back to the hotel becasue I had no idea where it was and no recollection of how I had gotten to the resturant.
Usually when I travel I call ahead and make sure my room has a coffee maker in it. If I am traveling with my husband I don’t worry about it. If there is no coffee maker he will figure out how to get a cup of coffee to me before I wake up. He takes this very seriously almost as if his life depends upon it.
I like my coffee black and maybe it is a Minnesota thing but when I buy it in a shop I mostly ask for coffee. Don’t care if it is tall or grand and no I don’t need room for cream or sugar and foam doesn’t do anything for me either . . just give me the damn coffee!
Some people have taken coffee to an art form. I found this video and they even put bunnies on top of it. The people who order it must be calmer and more patient than I am.
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I was once a coffee junkie like you, but gave it up cold turkey about a month ago. It was terrible the first week, and then it got worse.
I used to drink mine black as well. Except for the occasional instance were I would add some whiskey.
you need a portable coffee maker: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=portable+coffee+maker
(and perhaps a twelve step program!)
C have a portable coffee maker, it is to hard to pack when I fly.
Todd – why in the world would someone give up coffee? Your comment makes no sense what so ever.
Teresa indeed has a “portable coffee maker,” that would be me!
Jack – I have a portable coffee maker myself, however it is broken, maybe you can help with the repair. During our first 2 years of marriage it brought coffee to my bedside. Over the last four years it has delivered coffee less and less frequently until now I have to hit it to get it to work at all. Please help, always sleepy in Clearwater.
Tara – I don’t get bedside delivery but it is in the kitchen every morning. I really think he does it to make his own life easier. LOL
my husband has been practicing latte art – it’s taken a very long time but he, too, is an addict (both coffee and the sacred ritual of making it) so he’s working on it. Me, I get my caffeine from a good old can of Coca Cola… in fact I think I’ll grab one now
PS Peeps going in the micro today – they’re all lined up awaiting their fate…
You are my soul sister…although I don’t get that much of an early start. My children *know* to not ask anything of me until I’ve had at least one cup. I’ve heard them shushing each other..”Mom hasn’t had coffee yet! Don’t go in there!”… =)
Facebook needs to develop a coffee throwing application so we can help you out when you are out.
Hi Teresa: Like you say, no prob getting up, but coffee is ALWAYS the carrot on the end of my wake-up stick. At home, I make a pot of Chock-Full-O-Nuts. When I’m out, it’s Dunkin Donuts. Tastes just right. And I don’t try to do any of those fancy moves like in the video; it’s all I can do to aim the creamer into the cup at that hour.
Thanks for reminding us that Fridays are for fun. I’ve shamelessly ripped off your idea, with credit to you, and will now keep all of my Friday posts fun. First one went up today.
Teresa this post has been haunting me all day…I have been off the Joe for a week and a half. Unlike Todd this was not so much a choice but rather due to a nasty bout with the flu. Having lived through caffeine withdrawal headache for a week some crazed self righteous voice in the back of my skull convinced me that perhaps it was time to give the go-go juice. For the last few days I have passed when the wife would head into Dunkin Donuts. Since I walked out the door this morning after reading your post my “coffee senses” have been tingling and I could focus on nothing but the smell of the fresh brew that seemed to be everywhere around the office. I broke around 2 p.m. This happens to me once every 5 years or so. Thanks for snapping me back to reality.
Jeff – my heart goes out to you. I tried to give it up. I now stop drinking it by 10:00 in the morning and settle for a cup of tea at about 3:00 in the afternoon. it gives me a little jolt and helps me make it to my morning coffee. i stayed in a hotel in Paris that did not have tea or room service. My husband found tea at a store and the hotel found hot water. LOL
I hope that bunny wasn’t a peep. Peep’s don’t like hot coffee…only iced.
Tara: To fix a broken “portable coffee maker” is a fairly easy task. Just make his life freakin’ miserable ’til he changes his ways (I think–I don’t really know).
In our case, I’m as coffee-dependent as “T,” I simply function better without it than she.
I love my coffee black…If I can’t pronounce or it has more syllables than two, I don’t drink it. The earlier I get it the better your day. ; )
T, I always wondered how you do so much blogging as well as real estate. Now I know. I have never seen 4:30. Okay, maybe once when I stayed up. When I was young. I get up at 7:30. Sometimes 8. I do not like it when meetings or appointments get scheduled for 8:00 am because then I have to get up at 6 or 6:30. This is bad. On top of my sleep habits, I also need 24 ounces of coffee to get going. Good for you, though!
So if you ever come to Westchester -the best coffee is in Tarrytown. Coffee Labs on Main St. makes a stupendous brew – and it is STRONG…they also do latte art – but you would have to wait and I am guessing that’s not happening. Maybe a double shot of espresso???
So if you ever come to Westchester -the best coffee is in Tarrytown. Coffee Labs on Main St. makes a stupendous brew – and it is STRONG…they also do latte art – but you would have to wait and I am guessing that’s not happening. Maybe a double shot of espresso???