Humor: Coffee
March 8th, 2010 | 
Author: There are three kinds of people that drink coffee, addicts, casual sippers, 16 year old ADD kids, farmers, actually that’s four, actually bus drivers, big rig operators and. Well, you know what I am not going to make this article about all the different types of people that drink coffee. Instead I am going to tell you about my experience with coffee. Which I know of course can either be really boring or totally fascinating directly proportional to how many cups you drank this morning.
I grew up with parents that were addicted to coffee. Every morning they would wake up early and make a pot and share it before they went to work. When they got home in the evening they would brew some more up again. I remember watching that dumb foldger’s commercial “The best part of waking up” and thinking “That is like so true about my family” In one of the videos a soldier comes home from service and brews his parents up a pot before they wake up. This of course inspired me at a young age to wake up at the butt crack of dawn and brew coffee before my parents, in order feed their addiction. This was before the onslaught of the Starbucks franchise. Back then paying 1.55$ for a cup of coffee was completely outrageous. Times have changed.
Personally I had always thought the stuff was gross. And actually I never touched a cup of coffee until I was about 19 years old. At nineteen I went to work for Starbuck’s. You might think that I am going to go into a long spiel now about how Starbucks is some sort of evil empire but the truth is actually quite different. In retrospect Starbuck’s was one of the best college jobs I ever had. The work was not very difficult and after you had risen through the ranks somewhat there was a real sort of pseudo art to making a good cup of coffee not to mention if you got into making lattes and mochas. I did have to wake up early to open the store but I found out in a hurry that coffee really helps you do that. This is when I started drinking coffee by the gallon.
Coffee then for me was a magic potion. I would go out with my friends and stay up all hours of the night. I would then go back home sleep for two hours go to work and just drink a couple of cups of coffee in order stay up, or I would pull a couple shots of espresso thinking I was being really cutting edge. I soon learned that regular old morning blend coffee usually has more caffeine then like 3-4 shots of espresso. Knowing that I really started to appreciate coffee a lot more.
Related posts:
Posted in 
Tags: