“Wake up, Wendy, smell the coffee… Gimme a
cup of that old black magic”
From the song, “Wake up Wendy,” by Elton
John
“It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force
people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people
who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.”
Dave Barry
“This morning’s forecast: a 100 per cent
chance of coffee… At this point in my life, I am more coffee than man.”
Keith Wynn
I have just finished today’s cup of coffee. I tend to drink one cup of coffee and about two cups of tea a day. Because of the higher caffeine content, I can’t take more than one cup of coffee, or I get a bit shaky and dizzy.
I noticed that drinking too much coffee had a bad effect on me when I started trembling uncontrollably in a job interview. Because I didn’t want to be late, I searched for the location of the interview about an hour and a half before I had to be there, and then found a coffee shop in which to kill time. Several coffees later, I started feeling ill. The interviewer must have seen my hands trembling and assumed I was really desperate to get the job.
My body’s reaction to an overdose of caffeine is why I ordered a burger, fries, and a small black coffee in Freshness Burger the other day. I checked with the staff member. “The coffee comes as part of a set meal, right?”
“Right,” he said. “So that’s a burger, fries and coffee set, with a small black coffee,” he confirmed.
A few minutes later he brought me my burger, fries, a large black coffee, and a small black coffee. Apparently the set menu automatically comes with a large drink, and he thought my request of a small coffee was an extra order. He also must have thought that I was an extreme caffeine addict.
Double the recommended dose of
caffeine? I don’t think I want to be
awake in Nerima that long.
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