By Eve Tahmincioglu
We were at a friends house over the weekend for a BBQ and after a day of drinking and playing volleyball in their pool I made what turned out to be a dumb request. I asked for a cup of coffee.
The couple looked at my husband and me like we were crazy and proudly announced, “we don’t drink coffee.”
I asked, “you don’t have any in your house?”
“No, we don’t even buy it,” the wife chimed in.
Feeling I was bordering on being rude, I decided to drop the matter. But I sat there in silence wondering how any adult could survive without coffee. I get bypassing it on the weekend, but what about during your workweek? The couple were both hard workers. “How the heck did they get through a day?” I thought to... More...