On the way to a required professional development session, my colleague and I stopped for coffee (me) and Diet Coke (her).
“Gotta have something to keep us awake,” we told each other.
Upon arriving at our destination and settling in, I began looking over the materials, took a sip of my coffee, and—
“Good HEAVENS, that’s sweet!” I spluttered. I haven’t had sugar in my coffee in years, just two creams. Perhaps that’s why the taste was so intense?
And then I saw the tag on the cup.
Friends, and we wonder what is wrong with our country.
lit bits and pieces 
Good heavens is right! 20 sugars??? I like my coffee sweet, but wow! Is there any way the person who took your order could have misheard you at all??
Needless to say, you’ve not come down off your sugar high!
Thanks for this “sweet” slice! 😉
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I think someone else in the drive-though line ordered it and that there was a mix-up – don’t know how “coffee with two creams” could be misheard to this degree! I didn’t drink it. COULDN’T drink it. I would still be in a sugar coma or riveted to that meeting-room ceiling by my fingernails.
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TWENTY!? Holy cow that is an ungodly amount of sugar.
So…would you like fries with that…?
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🤣 It was like straight-up glucose. Practically viscous.
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I almost spit out my (mostly black and certainly not full of 20 sugars!) coffee!! And then my next thought was…did you drink it?? I don’t know if I could have sat through any PD, no matter how dynamic, without caffeine!
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I absolutely could NOT drink it – it almost turned my mouth inside out! At the break my colleague made a run to exchange it, thankfully, as COFFEE. WAS. VITAL.
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HOLY MOLY! That’s appalling. I can’t help gawking when I see people add sugar to their coffee in a seemingly never-ending stream–sort of like when I pass an accident or see road kill. I know I shouldn’t stare but it’s mesmerizing and horrifying! Yikes! I’m so sorry you didn’t get your coffee, but at least you found a slice!
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Yes – I could almost slice that coffee itself! “Mesmerizing and horrifying,” indeed! Deadly!
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I tasted it as soon as I read it … blah.
🙂
Kevin
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This is definitely a commentary on critical thinking. At what point does the coffee maker ask for clarification? Does a request for extreme amounts of sugar happen so often that it doesn’t cause one to pause and ask? Sheesh!
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Ack! Although, now that I think about it, isn’t that like drinking a soda…with cream?🤢
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20?! That’s enough sugar to make the Deep South jealous! Good grief. I wouldn’t have been able to finish it either. Just reading that made my teeth hurt.
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For real – and I grew up on southern sweet tea! I thought that was liquid sugar, until this.
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Ha! I cracked up! It’s so disappointing, I’m glad you finally got your cup!
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20 sugars! Oh my that should not be allowed:)
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Holy cow!! Personally, I like my healthy (Probably not healthy haha) dose of creamer and sugar, but that’s ALOT!
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I thought the same.
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Oh my! Would you like a little coffee with that sugar? Yuck!!
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Wow, that is unbelievable. I do not drink coffee, but if I did drink it, there would NEVER be 20 sugars. Unreal
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That is a LOT of sugar. Dear Heaven. Even for as a Southern girl raised on sweet tea, I don’t think I could drink it. Oh my.
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Oh my!
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Maybe they were trying to invent coffee flavored fudge? That’s about how much goes into a batch! Mercy sakes!
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