My first encounter with coffee was childhood, that experience gave me a very wrong impression on the personality of coffee drinkers, probably from the mindset of a child.
I use to have this playdate that whenever I go their house, we snoop around when we get bored playing. One time she and her siblings tricked me and that was the end of our play date.
Here's what happened.
We got done playing and was lying on the floor gisting. We paused for a moment and that was when her brother went, "you want to try something new?"
I became excited, I mean who doesn't like trying out new stuff? They told me about this beverage their father drinks, they said it tasted really nice and called it Nescafé....
They asked if I wanted a taste, I was excited and screamed Yes!
They brought out the tin of Nescafé and I sniffed it.... Men! It smelt so good and then they brought a spoon and asked me to help myself.
It was a small tin and as I served a spoon full because I had envisaged it will taste better than Milo, the tin which was still a bit full, became half empty.
In greed and gluttony, I shoved the entire content of the spoon into my mouth and my taste bud died.... Literally. I could swear a tear dropped as I could not stomach the bitter taste.
I wondered how something that smelt so nice could taste so horrible. This made me feel coffee drinkers would be pretentious people, probably in other to feel among, they act like coffee is sweet when it's actually not.
It was a really terrible experience for me how the whole thing played out. From that moment onward, I hated coffee and again felt anyone who could drink such must have a sad life and a mean personality because you have to be wicked to successfully drink and digest it.
Little did I know that I consumed it all wrong.
FAST FORWARD
I grew up watching cops on Tv drink coffee, I grew up seeing coffee sellers hawk coffee on their cart and when I see people drink it, they all seemed to love it and it just doesn't make sense to me so I just stuck with my already existing notion that they were pretenders.
Although, I relaxed on the notion of them being wicked.
Then I met my ex. My ex boyfriend is a coffee person, he doesn't start his day without it. One time, he asked me to get him some coffee as his was exhausted.
I asked him if I should get him the 3in1 coffee common around here, but he declined and said the beauty of being a coffee drinker, is being able to make your own coffee according to preference and not have someone mix it up for you.
I got him the coffee brand without milk or sugar and even volunteered to make it for him. Since in the movies I notice it's a trend for men to ask for black coffee, I thought it was a man's thing so I made sure the coffee was extra black and no sugar (didn't know sugar was important).
As he got a sip from the cup of coffee, he yelled, "what did you make for me?" I innocently said coffee and he queried why did I not add sugar?
I'm like I thought this was how you like it. He didn't utter another word and in other not to hurt my feelings, he drank it like that as there was no sugar in the house. Although, as he drank, he had candy in his mouth to dilute the bitter flavour.
The next time he was making his own coffee, I saw him add a little milk and sugar.
Eventually, I decided to try it out for the first time adding milk and sugar. I actually added enough milk and sugar to avoid history repeating itself, turns out I actually liked it.
From then onward, I became a coffee fan.
However, as a foodie I can't drink coffee without accompanying it with pastries.
Anyone who sees me where I am drinking coffee will have one thing come to mind, "this one is a foodie".
I also like it with lots of cream because I tried out black coffee with lots of sugar and I still was unsettled. Though I still manage to drink it when I need less sleep time and more working hours.
My ex is someone who is highly opinionated and always want things to go his way, so little wonder he wouldn't opt in for the already mixed coffee in the likes of 3in1.
With my ex, I would say to a large extent, coffee can say a lot about an aspect of ones personality. However with my first encounter with coffee and as I grow older, it will be absolutely misleading to judge ones personality from how they choose to drink coffee.
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