“I don’t like coffee,” I replied through my 30s. “I just like the smell. I ’m hyper enough as it is.”
When Starbucks opened its first small store in downtown Seattle in my 20s, I found it charming. Occasionally stopped by Starbucks for hot chocolate in the winter.
But at age 40, I developed a genetic sleep disorder. With a bouncy three-year-old, I discovered coffee made me feel happy in the morning! Now sipping coffee is a comforting morning ritual. I like dark coffee made with French roast coffee beans.
Love coffee ice cream. Add dark chocolate chunks and roasted almonds and I'm in heaven.
Surrounded by coffee purists, I don’t mind leftover coffee. A heretic. After doctoring it with sugar and milk, yesterday’s coffee tastes the same to me.
Starbucks 8-second rule springs to mind. Employees say it's to make them work faster.
In the winter, I lose my appetite during short, dark days. To gain weight, I add vanilla ice cream to my morning coffee.
"A tablespoon of ice cream won't make you gain weight," my friend Amy said. "Do what the rest of America does: eat the whole carton of ice cream in one sitting!"
I lived with my grandmother for a while when I was a kid.
I can always remember that smell waking up.
Back then they used a percolator, I don't know if any one uses those any more.
Any way, I tried a cup, with cream, ( no sugar, I hate the taste of it). I thought is was really good.
Been a coffee drinker ever since.
When I started college. I drink it black most of the time.
@Marz
Does black coffee put hair on your chest? Kidding.
@LiterateHiker I get flavored coffee. I try to limit my sugar intake.
Don't you know ice cream only comes in a single serving container...it may be large, but it is still a single serving.
Years ago I started dating a waitress that worked nights. Now I drink coffee, I don't know what happened to her.
Every summer during my high school years I went off to a childrens summer camp as a counselor. Those summers I lived on black coffee. I didnt like it, but needed the boost to keep up with 1st through 6th graders. I've been drinking it ever since, but in my 20s I doctored it up for a better flavor. Love my vanilla. Lol
Your first sentence was me until about 6 years ago (58 years old) I started drinking coffee to help curb my appetite, I also started rock climbing. I lost 40 pounds that year. The doctor said it was "the new girlfriend, endorphins help you lose weight".
i started drinking coffee when i began my second full-time job, as a switchboard operator for a d.c. saving and loan association. we got 15-minute coffee breaks and there was nothing i could do during them BUT drink coffee. i soon found out that one cup was wonderful and two cups gave me what later were identified as severe migraines.
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I can't exactly remember when I drank coffee for the first time but I was probably around 10-12 years old. It never became a habit for me. I saw that both my parents needed to drink coffee in the morning and thought it was weird that people needed something to drink to wake them up. As long as I get out of bed, I've never had a problem staying awake in the morning. Also the cost adds up over time, so I avoid it.