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|   | Subject: The Perpetual Half-cup
Posted May 5, 1999 by sturty | | Post: 1
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As tea is to our brothers and sisters across the sea, coffee is to us. Chatting with the neighbor over a cup of coffee seems to be a lessening event (especially when your neighbor carries his/her gun). The perpetual coffeepot brewing endless streams of liquid consumed in every variable form brings people together. Every one knows how they want it; cream and sugar, just cream, just sugar, and just hand me the can of beans and I'll get it over with.
Those that drink it black, look down with disdain at those who taint their precious liquid. Those who purchase it at the café are looking for more then coffee as they slither through the breeding grounds of the grunge culture. Never having given up their enjoyment of hot chocolate with marshmallows floating in it; they choose the flavor of the month: mocha latte cappuccino twist with a chocolate covered coffee bean on the side (which the eat smiling, but cringe and shiver on the inside when they find chunks of it buried inside their unfilled cavities).
The older women, fearful that the caffeine may effect them somehow, ask for “just half a cup” again and again and again. Carrying on a conversation over their half cups, they fill each other’s needs for companionship and idle gossip. All the while expounding on how they really should get going. It’s a wonder they hadn’t gotten going after 32 half cups of coffee!
After dinner, playing family card games, social gatherings, or a romantic rendezvous coffee fills our days and times with a drink readily available in any diner, restaurant, café, lounge, bar, pub, hotel room, motel lobby, or office. For all that we happily tip our hats to coffee and all its sinful pleasures.
|   | Subject: The Perpetual Half-cup
Posted Jun 1, 1999 by Kate
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*cheers and applause*
Amen to that!
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