"Proper way to drink coffee..."
Come on!
These are garages. This garage coffee. You know, the cup you pack around where ever you go in the shop. The cup hasn't been washed for 5 or 6 days because you are drinking out of it constantly. Most of the time its Folgers or somebody like that, regular blend. But a lot of the time it winds up being whatever's on sale. Just none of Chikoree coffee. That stuff gives me gas somethin' awful. And it don't do too well when it's not hot.
Let's face it, most garage coffee is drunk luke warm, to downright cold. Maybe a single hot sip from each cup, and then ya set
your cup down and start talkin' about whatever job you're doing today Maybe you're building a gerry-rigged petal setup 'cause the old man's leg gets tired staying poised on the clutch. So you go look under the dash tryin' to figger out how much crap is going to get burned if you try to weld a support in here. And then you kind of wander off into dream land and start talkin' about a new six speed - one of the good ones, all automagic except you can shift the gears with a couple buttons on the wheel. Damn, that'd by nice. Now you go ahead and decide to pull the engine so you can do this on the other side of the firewall. You probably need to put some new rings on it anyways, and it probably would be a good thing to check the bearings and see if there's and little shinies in the bottom of the oil sump...and then it's;
"Oh hell, where'd I put my coffee?" and then you remember, "Oh Yeah... over on the radio." and then it's "Shit, its cold" and you take a couple gulps anyway on the way to kitchen to nuke it.
The coffee... it has been heated, re-heated, perhaps the second pass through the same set of grounds. It has been nuked and renuked, and renuked again. The caraff on the coffee maker hasn't been washed since, oh hell, I guess since we bought the machine.
There's dust and crap in the air all over the place. There's crap flyin' cause somebody wanged the hell of of something with something else. There's alway a film of it on the surface of the coffee in
your cup.
Now tell me, there's a proper way to drink that. It helps if you're on autopilot or engrossed in something else so you don't taste it quite as much. I guess the only proper way to drink that stuff is to not get any on ya...
...and that Vanilla Coffeemate? It makes cold coffee go down a lot better than black. And the dust doesn't show quite as bad on the surface.
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