To expect coffee?!?!

This is a terrible situation. Sending thoughts and prayers.
Definitely buy them a little stove top coffee maker and a pack of ground coffee as a housewarming gift.

we don’t drink coffee but always have it in for guests. It’s probably not good coffee, just instant, but it is there. We do have friends who bring their own fancy stuff which is fine of course.

I agree with you about the coffee, but I never expect that people will have it. I take a portable espresso machine with me if I'm visiting someone :-) My BF doesn't drink coffee, I could get offered Monster but that's it. Likewise, though, if someone came to my house they would definitely get coffee, however I don't usually have milk in the house so hopefully they like it black. Best to always take what you would like to drink, just in case

How can you still be friends with these people

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Tepid water from the tap. NO ICE.

It’s disgusting. I have 2tsp of instant in my coffee and I have it black, I like to taste coffee.

Mellow Birds just triggered me 😭😭😭

Ex SIL was very hospitable but only ever provided tea 🤮 After about 2 years she proudly offered coffee....it was Mellow Birds.

I don't have coffee in my house because none of us drinks it. I would probably get some if we had guests but it would be instant (gasp!).

Completely Concur With You
Yes she's not being unreasonable
I'd most surely, learn from these types of experiences & from here onwards, would do my best to remember my own 🤗💚

Coffee bags in your handbag would be my advice, I never travel without them.

Totally agree. Extremely serious matter.

The best you can do in this situation is google for the nearest cafes and drive over soon as one opens.

Then, never go DfL again. It’s just not worth the trauma.

I drink 2-3 coffees a day, without fail so for me would be a big thing not to have a coffee. However as people have said, I get that some people don’t have it.
depends how much people host though - I don’t like to drink tea but always have it in the house in case people come over who drink it (which is a lot.)

This. lol.

In all seriousness though, I don’t understand people that don’t cater further guests. Unless money is an issue of course. I always make sure I have a variety of things in my guests would like. Definitely would have tea and coffee as a minimum even if I wasn’t having it. As an example if I had vegans coming, I’d get in the dairy replacements etc. And I’m not posh or monied at all but have always felt you need to make sure guests are happy, comfortable and catered for.

That's a bit of a hysterical overreaction.

I know a number of people who don’t have coffee in the house or they have mellow birds (I’d rather drink dish water).
i now have a sandwich bag full of Dowe Egbert coffee (it’s the only instant I’ll drink) in the glove box of the car and for places that I visit a lot (MIL or UIL) I have a jar there.

I literally do not leave my bed until the caffeine has hit my bloodstream. It’s not good for me or others.

Hmmmm. I reckon it's normal to have c9ffee in, but I actually tend to bring my own just in case 😅

Whenever I'm staying away from home I take a small steel coffee press and coffee.
I wouldn't expect people I was staying with to have coffee paraphernalia unless they're coffee drinkers and hotel coffee is usually crappy instant.
We did stay somewhere that had ground coffee bags recently but you needed at least 3 for a decent cup and they'd allocated one each.

lol. You wouldn’t get a coffee at mine either. None of us drink coffee. The last time I had some in it went mouldy before it was next needed. So I don’t bother. Unless someone specifically asks for it. However I’ve a friend I visit and can’t get a cup of tea at theirs as they only drink coffee. I’m prepared now for if I’m to visit and just take some. I’m take my own decaf tea anyway when I’m out for an evening as I can’t drink regular tea too late.

Went on holiday last summer with my sister and BIL. He’s the only one that drinks coffee and we did buy it in when we did our supermarket delivery order, however he got up each morning and went to the cafe down the street for a proper one!! He was usually up much earlier than everyone else.

I feel your pain…as one of the few remaining people who take sugar in their tea and coffee I’ve learned to pinch sachets whenever I can to carry about my person. So many people just don’t have it in the house nowadays

Nope. Her hosts are monsters!! 👹

please adjust your halo 😇

Not read the full thread yet but …
I don’t understand hosts who don’t provide the basics - tea, coffee, sugar, milk, a couple of cereals etc
If they never have coffee in the house, surely they must know that loads of people need their morning coffee?
In their position I’d suggest that guests bring a jar of their favourite coffee
I sympathise! I have one cup of decent coffee a day, first thing, then I wake up and I’m human 😀

I think this counts as the most pathetic post I've seen on here.

Well if they don't like it they don't have to drink it and to be honest I'd rather they didn't so I don't have to smell it!