Mmmmm... Coffee.
I was driving between Memphis and Birmingham earlier this week and ran up behind this truck full of 9000 gallons of coffee. If you believe that I’ve also got a bridge to sell you, but it was a eye grabbing advertisement for Pilot Travel Centers where I assume this truck was on its way to deliver fuel. When I snapped a picture and sent it to one of my work colleagues (with the subject line Mmmm… Coffee.) who is also a good friend that knows I wear the TDA hat on my free time, he e-mailed back a pair of quick comments.
First he asked me if it was such a good idea taking pictures and e-mailing while I was driving. And it would not, but when I am driving my Blackberry Storm rides high on my dash so that I can use it as a GPS and it just so happens that it is almost perfectly positioned as a dash cam. My friend is lucky I didn’t send him a video! And I didn’t forward the picture to him until I had stopped for, you guessed it, a refill of coffee. The other question he asked was much more relevant to TDA content.
How is drinking so much coffee any different from being addicted to alcohol?
Well there are obviously a lot of differences included the intoxicating nature of alcohol and the extreme nature of events that occured because I was under the influence, but I was on a brief pit stop and didn’t want to use insufferable Storm keyboard to write out a thesis on the subject . So I broke it down to a simple sentence. I LIVED FOR ALCOHOL; coffee- although often present, is just another part of a rather enjoyable life. Mmmm… life.
