Lifestyle: take-out coffee, part 1

Self-tutoring about lifestyle: the tutor mentions something he’s noticed about take-out coffee.

I’ve known a few people who complain pretty decisively when they are served coffee that’s “not hot.” That’s all good, theoretically. However, those people’s preference seems to have made it impractical for me to buy take-out coffee, because it’s too hot for me. When I say take-out coffee, I mean coffee in a paper cup with a lid.

Until about eight years ago, I used to take cream in my coffee. Then, due to a doctor’s finding (see my post here), I started drinking my coffee black. While I took cream in coffee, getting it take-out worked for me, because the cream would cool the coffee down enough to be drinkable.

Black take-out coffee with the lid on, in my experience, can take ten or fifteen minutes to cool down enough to drink. By then, the occasion to drink it might be over.