Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for August 06, 2024

when this starts in my head, I turn the kettle on, and make my own coffee shrug

Not a hard Arnold Palmer? I guess not, at a coffee shop.

Tenuous Tightrope… band name, or a really difficult exercise?

The blended Arnold Palmer sounds great! Tell Young Amanda you’re doin’ your own thing!

My inner Child would totally go along with that.

My practical side (from my Mom) would reject the coffee shop altogether and make her own coffee. My madly wild side would go for it in a heart beat. Danm the money I don’t have to spend on it. These days my Mom is winning.

Yesterday a good friend was helping me out with errands, and made a stop for herself to get a coffee drink. I thought to myself, this lady doesn’t have two nickels to rub together, and she’s spending money on a coffee drink that I’d offered to her free just a few hours before. Yup, Mom is definitely winning..

Remember when you went to a coffee shop and your only choice for a caffeinated beverage was coffee???

I remember when “coffee shop” meant a place like Denny’s.

I like my coffee hot, black, and caffeinated. Nothing fancy.

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Oops. Sorry, wrong door.

For every extra item they add to the menu in a coffee bar, that’s an extra 30 seconds wait for you mulltiplied by the number of people ahead of you in line trying to make up their minds.

Coffee at a shop is entertainment for me. Coffee at home is a routine.

Like getting a coffee at an ice cream stand.