DANGER! Bottomless Coffee

Posted 13 Jan 2012

Daily Life, Drinks | 7 Comments 

It’s morning and you’re enjoying breakfast at a diner. The food is greasy and tasty. You can feel your energy for the day building and you’re excited that you decided to eat here.  In fact, you’re so thrilled by the experience that you fail to keep tabs on an important factor.  This place has bottomless coffee.

Most diners do, in fact.

The kind waiter / waitress swings by your table every few minutes and offers to top off your cup.  You’re eating salty foods, and so you keep needing more to drink, so of course you say “Sure, fill ‘er up.”

Generally, this endless stream of coffee is a good thing. It should be up to you to decide how much you want to drink.  That said, it’s risky business. With the constant refilling, the fact that most fills are not quite  a full cup and not quite a half-cup, it is quite easy to lose track of just how much coffee you’ve imbibed.  Before you know it, you could be 48 oz of coffee in and none the wiser!

So as you lift that next piece of delicious bacon off your plate and prepare to enjoy chomping down on it, watch out for that shaky hand or sudden loss of ability to focus your attention, that could be the sign that you may need to switch to water.

Notable Exception: To our friend who sports six coffee cups on his/ her desk at work, we’re pretty sure this danger is not going to be an issue for you.

The bottle is all empty

Posted 23 Nov 2011

Daily Life, Drinks | 1 Comment 

When the nutritional facts read straight zeroes, I always half expect the bottle to simply be empty.

Is it time for tea?

Posted 8 Nov 2011

Daily Life, Drinks | 9 Comments 

It’s obvious that I need to add “English midnight study session tea” to my tea collection, but I wonder if you have any other suggestions in addition?

This here pile of food

Posted 3 Nov 2011

Daily Life, Drinks, Food, Signs | 2 Comments 

This heavily sign-posted door sure asks a lot from people passing by. Signs there are discussing every little thing, making me wonder who is responsible for policing these requests. 

Specifically, this one request seems more than a small amount unreasonable to me.

I suspect that many others feel the same way, as there was no massive pile of food deposited on the floor outside. I sure wasn’t about to surrender my lunch to the faceless person requesting that all food and drinks in the world be left outside.

Let them do their own shopping!

Not Chinese tea

Posted 13 Oct 2011

Daily Life, Drinks, Food | 1 Comment 

We’ve mentioned before the beauty in gazing at your drink as it morphs under your eyes (see Brownian post), but I must say, I was slightly disturbed when my Jasmine tea started to resemble wonton soup.

If it were Chinese tea, maybe I’d give it a break. Or if the flavor morphed, I would have been surprisingly fulfilled. But of course, it didn’t, and I was left to slurp leaf dumplings.

Oh the lengths we’ll go for free ($3 tea) wi-fi…