by Catriona Mills

    The Dangers of Coffee

    Posted 1 July 2008 in

    So, I was making myself a cup of coffee.

    As you do.

    I had the espresso made up on the stove.

    Once the kettle boiled, I picked it up, to top up my cup with hot water.

    Then I realised I hadn’t actually poured any of the coffee into my cup.

    I could, of course, have simply put the kettle back down, picked the coffee pot up, and made coffee in the usual fashion.

    But, no. I decided it made more sense to pick the coffee pot up in my left hand, while still holding a kettle’s worth of boiling water in my right hand, and try and make the cup of coffee that way.

    And then . . . well, does anyone else remember that old Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert was running a training school for self-serve garage attendants, and Scott Adams couldn’t figure out how to end the story line, so he had them all die from papercuts sustained in a map-folding exercise?

    It didn’t end up anything like that.

    But it could have.

    The point of this? There is none.

    But I think the lesson to be learned from all this is that I would benefit from drinking less coffee.

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