Coffee

Sometimes I drink a cup of coffee. Please understand I am not a coffee drinker. Most of the time, when I go somewhere, I am annoyed if all they have is coffee. Or if they have tea too, it is not properly made, it is obviously a coffee drinkers' event. But still, sometimes I drink coffee.

Sometimes it tastes really good to me and sometimes it tastes just awful. When I taste it and find it doesn't taste all that great, not nearly as good as it smells, then I ask myself, "why the hell am I drinking coffee? I don't even like it." Sometimes I drink coffee when I am home alone and I have a great selection of teas. So there is no peer pressure and I have lots of other choices.

Why, then, do I drink coffee at all? It must be the peer pressure even though it isn't present. Sometimes I just want to be like other people so I drink coffee. I want to be like the other women who go out to work at full time jobs and then come home and clean their houses and still have time to sit down and make a quilt or knit some fucking socks for their kids. They are just amazing people and quite often they drink coffee. I guess it gives them a lift. Is that why I drink coffee? And is this lift a physical, biochemical lift or a psychological emotional lift? Is there a difference?

Then there are all the people who have jobs and pay cheques and they drink coffee. At work they drink lots of coffee. It is a ritualized behaviour, drinking coffee in the workplace. If you don't line up for coffee and chat, you won't even know what is going on in the office.

A simple invitation to go and have coffee could lead to anything from a car deal to a dope deal to a romance. A potential murderer could even lure his/her victims by inviting them out for coffee. "Meet me at The Second Cup" sounds so casual. ... Or, how about "donuts and coffee at Robins?" Very innocent. You hear it all the time.

Coffee isn't good for you. We all know that. It's the caffeine in it. Especially bad for menstruating and menopausal women (sorry guys, I just had to throw that one in but you're used to it if you watch t.v....) It makes them/us bitchy. If you took the coffee away from all the hard core coffee drinkers, business would shut down for a week while every office worker and clerk would be going through withdrawal. And honey, if you know anything about coffee withdrawal you know what a raging, blinding headache that can be.

Studies indicate (yes, that is my tongue in my cheeky) that the caffeine makes your blood pressure go up until you get used to it and then you need it to keep your blood pressure level. A complicated chemical relationship is established if one is also a cigarette smoker. The caffeine takes you up, the nicotine brings you down. The classic schizoid personality but I am no shrink, I don't even like their thing though I am familiar enough with theories and treatments.

Anyhow, it's time to get back to the point about coffee which is there is no point. This was just an exercise in words to see if you would read all the way to the end. Now if you're one of those people who must read the end first then just go and .......have a coffee. I'll be having a cup of tea.

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This page updated May 19, 2007.