Coffee

Since I've already complained about coffee twice today, allow me to relate a funny anecdote regarding the beverage.



Lindsey used to work with a 60 year old woman who loved coffee but did not drink it. She was a nurse at the hospital Lindsey recently left. This is the strangest thing. Late at night, in the middle of their shift at the hospital this woman would ask Lindsey if she would like a cup of coffee. If Lindsey declined the offer she would beg and insist that they have coffee until Lindsey relented.



Once it was agreed, she would pull out a canister of coffee and chicory that she kept in her desk and brewed a fresh pot. When it was ready, Lindsey would fix herself a cup, and the woman would also pour a cup. She then proceeded to put both sweetener (she used Sweet-N-Low because she was diabetic) and creamer (both kept in her desk) in her cup and stir. And stir. And stir.



That's all she would do with it was stir. She never even took the first sip.



Lindsey and I have pondered this on many a night and can't really come up with any good reason for it. The best we can do is that she liked the smell of fresh coffee, but if that's the case, why add sugar and creamer? Why bother? Why waste the coffee AND the cream and sugar? Not to mention, why waste your money on coffee, cream and sugar that you know you aren't going to drink?



And if she wasn't going to drink it anyway, why did it matter if she used real sugar or Sweet-N-Low? The fact that she's diabetic shouldn't matter if she doesn't drink the coffee anyway. I just can't understand it.



She was a funny lady.