I’ve begun to notice something in my drinking habits, not of the alcoholic kind, but of the caffeinated kind. Before I elaborate on this I first need to fill you in with the back story.
I, like many of fellow man, first had caffeine from Coca-Cola. It was sugary, it fizzed and like the little 4 year-old I was I found this entertaining to max. As I grew older I grew to have a sort of addiction to it, it was my drink of choice, however it was very hard to get hold of as I couldn’t afford the $3 for a bottle. This however changed in Year 7 when I discovered that at the Woolworths across the street from FDMC was selling 1 Litre bottles of budget cola for $1. It wasn’t as fine and precise as the actual Coca-Cola but it filled in quite comfortably. Every lunchtime someone would have bought some at the Tuckshop or someone in the morning had one, always prepared to share a “Maori cup” of the stuff.
I have never been a fan of tea, but I think this previous exposure in my early years lead me to be a coffee-only person. I remember my first cup of coffee, a short black bought for me by a 49-year old retired policeman, Mike, who was with me and two others in Mcfarlenes trying to write our NaNoWriMo novels in November 2006. I fell in love instantly (With the coffee not Mike you douche), and from then on I would always have it black, moving eventually onto long black, with one sugar.
It’s also at this time I discovered energy drinks, and this is where the weird thing comes in – as I have progressed through the energy drinks, moving onto harder and stronger things (I started with Lift+, then went onto V, then V Black and now, Demon), my normal coffee consumption has moved onto weaker and weaker stuff. I found myself the other day having a Cinnamon Chai Latte. I suppose it’s just my body trying to balance out the consumption levels but I still think it’s weird.
