No matter if you’re waiting for a bus or awaiting trial,
there’s something to be said for a good cup of coffee.
Depending on circumstances, our standards change. A 10-cent hot cup of coffee, dispensed in a
paper cup from a machine can be just as comforting as some $9.00 foam, whip, razzle-dazzle
with the image of a fern on the top.
Consider the factory worker, whose only option is the 10-cent coffee machine. Surrounded by noise, annoying bosses and seemingly endless night shifts, the heat transferred through that paper cup is enough to take their mind off of their situation long enough to picture some tropical destination, where the warmth of the sun drowns out everything else.
That same coffee machine, against the wall in the hospital
waiting room can perform similar magic.
It’s only when the paper cup drops at an angle, sending
coffee around the tilted cup and down the drain that we’re snapped back to the
harsh reality that sometimes things go wrong.
1 comment:
And that, my friend, is when you pour yourself another cup!
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