# I'm Wired (or, what's your morning drink?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-wired-or-whats-your-morning-drink/68044>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 8, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-wired-or-whats-your-morning-drink/68044 "2001-06-08T12:03:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-wired-or-whats-your-morning-drink/68044/21 "2001-06-08T22:47:48Z")

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_blush_ and I do it again on the next post. That would be screen, not screem.

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**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-wired-or-whats-your-morning-drink/68044/22 "2001-06-08T22:59:42Z")

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PLEASE tell me you’re being daft, **Esprix** …  
I’m almost 100% sure **Lsura** meant 2-3.  
Your favorite Captain Obvious,  
Davidson

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-wired-or-whats-your-morning-drink/68044/23 "2001-06-08T23:02:12Z")

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Uh, shaaa?

My question is, if you lose count somewhere around like 150, do you have to start over? 203 sounds like a weird kind of exact number. Is it an obsessive/compulsive thing?

Esprix

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-wired-or-whats-your-morning-drink/68044/24 "2001-06-08T23:15:53Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Esprix \*  
> \*\*Uh, shaaa?
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> My question is, if you lose count somewhere around like 150, do you have to start over? 203 sounds like a weird kind of exact number. Is it an obsessive/compulsive thing?
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> Esprix \*\*

Oh absolutely. It does occasionally hamper my work performance-it’s hard to handle the international travel and such when the feds don’t want you in the lavatory during takeoff and landing, but I just put in a catheter and I’m good to go.

And now that I’m not smoking, I have ever so much time. I’m thinking about upping it to 212 cups.

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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-wired-or-whats-your-morning-drink/68044/25 "2001-06-08T23:27:07Z")

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On a fine morning: All-native-grown coffee(\*) ; dark roast, fine grind; run thru reusable mesh filter; serve latté style. Don’t need another one all day.

On an ordinary morning: Native-brand blend, through the auto-drip machine paper filter. Can handle a couple of them.

On a terrible morning: I’m on a business trip to the States and am given ordinary American-style see-thru coffee. I get withdrawal headaches thru the first 48 hours unless I drink it by the potful. How can _this_ wake anyone up?  
jrd

(\*)home is Puerto Rico

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