Any coffee lover seeing me order a coffee prefers to shrivel up and die a slow decaffeinated death. I find a size that isn’t even on the charts on the board, and order one smaller than that. As if this embarrassment were not enough, I would stress on the extra milk and 1/2 shot of coffee.
“There ISN’T even a half shot of coffee available!” the husband would say looking embarrassed, and shuffling his feet. Clearly, for a macho coffee lover, it is uncool to be seen in public with a coffee douche. In fact the general consensus on the male coffee lovers club seems to be that bad enough the spouse is a coffee-douche, but is shamelessly admitting it? It could be a blow to any male’s ego.
I now know how a peacock must feel. Going around strutting with all those colorful feathers and generally trumping up the importance of color in life. Even the far off rainbow seems impressed. Then, the female of the species comes along, in a stunning white, and still looks graceful as hell without any of the colors. That must have ticked off the peacock a good deal.
What I am getting at is…The male is proud of taste buds, yada yada yada, female blah-blah.
A few months ago, I decided to make matters worse and cut coffee. ‘I’ll go for Tea’ I announced high-handedly. It wasn’t like I was making a sacrifice. In fact it is documented fact that my brain reacts to tea like a camel spotting an oasis. The welcoming cup in the morning springs on the new day, and the whole day just goes on, basking in the warmth of the morning tea.
When the oracles of stress relief pounced on my ounce of tea in the morning, I decided to let go. “Caffeine is the worst!”, they proclaimed. Reading about caffeine one day, I decided to cut the miserable loner of a cup of tea in the morning and rough it out. I bunged in the Philosophical line “What is life without a few sacrifices?”, and had a warm glass of milk in the morning instead.
I might as well have popped a few sleeping pills. Not one of these folks told me the effects of warm milk on sleepy brain cells. The cells went into a kind of a stupor. I was snoring with my eyes open, and at one point might even have been drooling.
That wouldn’t do. I mean I still have to make a living and snoring droolers don’t make a living. I think I’ll stick to the cuppa tea in the morning and battle the effects of caffeine. Or I may switch to decaffeinated tea and see how that goes.
Nourish-n-Cherish 
Not as bad as a caffeine-douche married to an espresso lover. He feigns nonchalance when ordering a double-shot espresso and a kids cocoa.. 🙂
Feigns nonchalance – nice strategy!
If there’s one thing worse than a coffee-douche, its a coffee-douche that’s proud of being a coffee-douche. What’s worse than that? A c-d who is proud of being a c-d and announces to the world at large that they are a c-d.
As for the ‘experts’ who say caffeine is bad, please extend to them, my invitation to jump off a cliff, preferably, head facing downwards. There’s nothing wrong with a tiny dose of caffeine to nudge the old noodle into action in the morning (the stress expert who visited our office said so!). There’s a fine line of difference between having a cuppa coffee and several cups a day!
Hahhaha! Its the absence of caffiene that is inducing stupor.
Weaning from it slowly might help. Only the first two three days are bad and then you get used to it. But I know, better said than done ;–)
That said I am a c-d myself :–S
Well anand….what you say might be true. The morning cup stays
SK: There is no slowly. That’s all the caffeine I had anyway. I used to take only 1 cup (1/2 cup actually!), and that went. So, unless I got myself to make 1/4 cup of tea (jobless you’ll agree!)
Anyway, I’ll stick it out. Maybe decaf tea to start with.
I don’t mind anyone who drinks warm milk and calling it as coffee. I know one person’s coffee is another’s “dication” 🙂 What I (and other coffee lovers all over the world) question is, the “milder” coffee lovers saying they don’t want to have a separate cup of coffee and they will “share” the cup 🙂
I have a suspicion that researchers will come back and say, “recent research shows right dose of coffee is very good for brian and heart” 🙂
Sri…shows what an excess of coffee does to Brian!
I don’t mind anyone who drinks warm milk and calling it as coffee. I know one person’s coffee is another’s “dication” What I (and other coffee lovers all over the world) question is, the “milder” coffee lovers saying they don’t want to have a separate cup of coffee and they will “share” the cup
I have a suspision that researchers will come back and say, “recent research shows right dose of coffee is very good for brain and heart”