The only time I ever
drink coffee is when I plan on spending a long
night at
Denny's or
Jerry's with my
friends where I can enjoy an endless amount of
coffee. So when I first started going there with my
friends I'd use 3/7 a
packet of sugar and about 2/3
creamer cup (i found this to be the
perfect ratio of
coffee to
creamer and
sugar), and all would be well. That is until i drank about 5/8 of my cup, and the waitress would come around to fill it up again. And, much to my
dismay, I would
discover that the added coffee had destroyed the
delicate balance of
coffee,
creamer, and
sugar.
So
I would have to sit there and think to myself..."I had 3/8 of a
cup remaining when she came to
refill the
cup. How much
creamer and
sugar would I need to reattain the
balance I have lost?" I could usually not answer this question since the math
confused me, so I would just spend the next 5 minutes mixing in small amounts of the
additives until i found a relatively good semblance of what I
desired. This sort of thing happened
countless times over the course of my stay. I finally decided that the
coffee gods where trying to tell me
something. It was time to go
black, because when you went
black there were no ratios to worry about, and
life became much simpler. Simpler, that is, once
I got used to the
taste.