To wish adults would stop drinking so much coffee.

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The smell wafting along the room assaulting my nostrils is sickening. Especially coffee breath, which other people can smell even if you can't. WHY AND HOW DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS? I'm getting sick to the back teeth of having to consciously suppress gagging every day. Even just walking down the street, I can smell it. It reeks.

And then to add insult to the injury every cafe sells 500 different types of coffee, 300 teas and only 2 cold drink options. So I can't even enjoy my plastic cup of tap water in peace without the smell of complex coffees mixing!

Am I the only adult that hates this stuff?

(Lighthearted sort of. I've had a bad day...)

I wish there were separate queues for people ordering coffee in cafes.

It takes soooo long to make one cup of coffee

Could you move to Utah? Mormons do not drink coffee, I believe.

YANBU about coffee breath.
Actually I hate any kind of breath. Even fresh & minty - I just don't think you ever need to smell the breath of another adult. Especially at work.
Banana breath is pretty rank.
Red Bull breath/burps too.

They really go to town with it all in places like Costa. It fascinates me, all that steam and gurgling and firing up machines and decanting. What a palaver .

I've worked for over 40 years and never met anyone who didn't drink either tea or coffee. Maybe its a northern thing, we like a good brew up here.

I brush my teeth after every cup of coffee. I love coffee but hate the coffee breath. I take a toothbrush and toothpaste with me when I go out.

If the obsession with hot drinks has to stop...how about the obsession with eating yourself until you're obese..maybe that should stop.

Sick of my colleague eating the most fattening and stinking food on an open plan office when she is a bloody size 20 at least.

Yes I said that not because i really fwel that way, i dont fwiw, i said it to show you how bloody ridiculous you sound.

Adore coffee, tea is actually very cooling for the body in the heat. Every time I am ill it's the first thing I can't bear, funny how the body is.

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I'm not concern trolling though.

Do you get 'manager's breath' where you are? it's a mixture of coffee, meat, and business lunch alcohol.

Christ that sounds horrendous.

I wonder if the smells are getting stronger with all these weird newfangled coffees around. It didn't used to bother me.

It's probably just as well that I never did like tea or coffee as I wouldn't be able to put cows milk in, and that would be faffy.

I have taken up fruit teas in recent years to hide the foul taste of the tap water in the staff room. I don't know what goes wrong with it in the plumbing system!

I also like hot water. For some reason that request gets odd looks.

It turns out that hundreds of our weekends were ruined by DH not realising he had caffeine withdrawal as he doesn't drink coffee at home, and had never realised how much of the stuff he drinks on autopilot at work.

I constantly drink tea and coffee. Quite simply it's procrastination.

I love coffee. I tolerate tea.

I can't stand the smell of energy drinks. But I don't think I'd be likely to go around imposing my tastes on the rest of the population because that's a bit crap.

YANBU totally agree. People don't seem to realise how unpleasant their stinky coffee and coffee breath (urrrgh) is.

I have to have one cup of strong black coffee when I wake up. I have a second one and it's never as good. Then that's it for the day. I don't understand why people go to Starbucks etc but then they don't understand why I like a glass of wine at lunchtime.

Wife I am northern and drink neither

"I have to have one cup of strong black coffee when I wake up. I have a second one and it's never as good."

I don't drink black coffee, but I agree with you about the first coffee being good and then the following ones being increasingly worse each time. For me it's a similar experience to when I smoked fags; the first cigarette each morning was lovely, but by the end of every day I was always fed up with the taste of them.

YANBU, especially the fact that every cafe sells 500 different types of coffee. I like tea and usually find that there's only one sort available.

OP - I can't understand how anyone can "enjoy a PLASTIC cup of tapwater". So you are being unreasonable.

I gave up coffee last year after seeing the look of horror on my PT's face when I told him how much I drank. I feel much better for it.

I don't drink coffee but I love the smell, since being pregnant (I'm only 12 weeks) I've been really enjoying sniffing coffee and vicks vapour rub (not together!)

when I smoked fags; the first cigarette each morning was lovely, but by the end of every day I was always fed up with the taste of them.

mademan I've never smoked but my friend was trying to quit smoking when pregnant and failing miserably and feeling like shit. She said what really worked was a nurse who told her to light up one fag in the morning and take three slow draws on it and then stub it. That's apparently the best part of the best cigarette of the day. The nurse said if she did weaken and have another, no matter, just stub it and try again.

My friend said it cut her consumption right down and what was most important was that the nurse was a smoker and understood. Both of them are still smokers but I think it's a bit less.

Isn't coffee part of the 'cult of busy' though?

What is the cult of busy?