This is Total BS!

Alright, I don’t claim to be a connoisseur, or anything, but each morning I like my coffee.  I can drink coffee that’s too acidic, or has coffee grounds in it, or had too much sugar put into it to try to compensate for the other two things.  I’ll get by.  However, I do have only one requirement for my daily caffeine[1] fix: The coffee must be in a receptacle such that I can drink it.  This morning, not so.

I get up, I’m tired.  Like usual.  I hear on the radio that there has been some power outages around Barrhaven, some people have been nearly T-boned at intersections because the traffic lights have been out.  I don’t worry because I’m not stupid.

I get to McDonald’s and pull into the drive through.  I wait at the speaker.  And wait.  And wait.  It’s like 5 minutes with nothing happening.  The LED “get your order right” sign is fine.  The lights are on in the restaurant, but apparently, even though there is no CLOSED sign, or any lack of bustling on the inside, because of the (previous) power outage, they are closed.  Ballhockey.  I look over at Tim Horton’s… a guy pulls on the front door: it’s locked.  I swear I’m gonna stab somebody.

They lady behind me in a Yukon yells something.  Whatever.  I pull out of the McDonald’s and head to work, no earlier than usual, but remarkably less caffeinated.  But I think to myself, “No problem.  We’re training some people from Asia at work.  They have cookies, snacks, and coffee out for them, I’ll just get a coffee there.”  Everything works out in the end.

Somebody drank all the fucking coffee.  Now I’m screwed.  I have to wait til lunch.  But I don’t have coffee at lunch, I usually have something cold to counter-act the hot soup, or whatever, that I have at home.  And by the afternoon, I will have gotten my “you don’t have enough caffeine in your system” headache.  And just adding more caffeine only helps a little.  I’m screwed.

[1] Don’t even get me started on Decaf.