# my coffee wasn't so good this morning **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coffee-wasnt-so-good-this-morning/191506 "2003-07-28T19:58:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coffee-wasnt-so-good-this-morning/191506/1 "2003-07-28T19:58:46Z")
I am a coffee person, plain and simple. I _need_ hot coffee every morning, even if it’s 100 degrees out. I am slightly distrustful of people who are indifferent towards coffee. Hate it if you must, but to say you just don’t care? Well, that’s wrong. I drink it black, no sugar. I know that some people like their dairy or sweetener in it, but that’s not for me. Why ruin the taste of pure coffee goodness? Flavored coffees, like your hazelnut or French vanilla or strawberry rhubarb, are just plain icky to me. And don’t even get me started on the frozen frappacilatta things. That’s a damn milkshake, admit it! As part of my morning coffee ritual, I use the same mug every morning. It’s a good size mug with a couple of cute little snowmen on it. I have no particular sentimental attachment to this mug, in that it wasn’t given to me by my sainted grandmother or anything, but it’s the one I always use. Until today. Today I used a different mug, some ordinary thing with a company logo on it. I don’t even know why I did this—my regular mug was _right there_. It was a whim, and I am not even particularly prone to whims. Well, I paid the price for my capricious behavior. My coffee wasn’t nearly as good. It was…lacking somehow. I thought about switching mugs halfway through, but worried that that would be weird and obsessive. I should have been weird and obsessive. My coffee was nowhere near as good, I didn’t feel as energized by the caffeine (leading me to believe that some of it was leeched out by the inferior mug), and, basically, my whole day has been kind of crappy. I’m sorry little snowman mug. I never should have strayed. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coffee-wasnt-so-good-this-morning/191506/2 "2003-07-28T20:06:44Z")
I hear ya. I usually only have one cup of coffee in the morning. It _has_ to be good or I’m an evil, snarling bitch the rest of the day. If the coffee’s good, them I’m just an evil bitch the rest of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coffee-wasnt-so-good-this-morning/191506/3 "2003-07-28T20:09:14Z")
**lorene** , never stray from your rut. Rut-straying bad. Bad, I tell you. Por ejemplo: Water from refrigerator door that comes through a Culligan filter over five years old that probably isn’t even functional: GOOD Water from tap in same kitchen: BAD ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coffee-wasnt-so-good-this-morning/191506/4 "2003-07-28T20:09:39Z")
Well it least you don’t have inconsiderate people making the coffee. We have a guy here that when he makes the coffee he uses 2 packs instead of one. And you never know it until you take that first sip…of mud. Then you have a complete disgust for coffee for the rest of the morning and miss out on the caffeine fix all day. All because some inconsiderate person wants to make the coffee according to his liking and not the 14 other employees in the building! ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coffee-wasnt-so-good-this-morning/191506/5 "2003-07-28T20:19:47Z")
Well it least you don’t have inconsiderate people making the coffee. We have a guy here that when he makes the coffee he uses 2 packs instead of one. And you never know it until you take that first sip…of mud. Then you have a complete disgust for coffee for the rest of the morning and miss out on the caffeine fix all day. All because some inconsiderate person wants to make the coffee according to his liking and not the 14 other employees in the building! ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coffee-wasnt-so-good-this-morning/191506/6 "2003-07-28T20:23:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Isabelle \* > \*\*Well it least you don’t have inconsiderate people making the coffee. We have a guy here that when he makes the coffee he uses 2 packs instead of one. And you never know it until you take that first sip…of mud. Then you have a complete disgust for coffee for the rest of the morning and miss out on the caffeine fix all day. All because some inconsiderate person wants to make the coffee according to his liking and not the 14 other employees in the building! \*\* Can’t the other 14 people gang up on this guy? Is there not one person in that lot who can get to the coffee before him? Can’t you throw out the swill he makes (after carefully setting aside a cup for him, lest you also be called inconsiderate) and make some decent coffee? Good God, woman. Coffee anarchy. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-coffee-wasnt-so-good-this-morning/191506/7 "2003-07-28T20:33:43Z")
## quote lorene Can’t the other 14 people gang up on this guy? Is there not one person in that lot who can get to the coffee before him? Can’t you throw out the swill he makes (after carefully setting aside a cup for him, lest you also be called inconsiderate) and make some decent coffee? Good God, woman. Coffee anarchy. The other guys have complained once or twice to him but it makes no difference so they have just given up. The coffee is not like that EVERY day but it always happens when you least expect it to. That first swig of mud is enough to make you barf. I’m going to have to resign myself to drinking decaf because he doesn’t touch the stuff.