Buy a Coffee Machine and Shut Your Pie Hole
Probably just my mood today, but this just reads like an entitled douche bag moaning about not being able to be an entitled douche bag in public every day.
I lived in downtown Vienna — famous for coffee — for a few years just to be in crawling distance of my favorite bars. Each morning I would walk to the local coffee shop for a double espresso.
After a few months I realized that literally no one gives a shit if you can afford to pay €5 for a cup of coffee 2–3 times a day. It is just an ego trip. A stupid waste of time and money. I bought a Nespresso machine. Nespresso had elegant stores all over Vienna, one within crawling distance of my flat. I was George Clooney suave as I sashayed back to my flat with dark tubes Ristretto and Lungo in a branded bag.
After a few months I realized that literally no one gives a shit if you can afford to go shopping every couple of weeks and pay € 80 / kilo for coffee in environmentally unfriendly packaging. It is just an ego trip. A stupid waste of time and money. I bought a machine with enough pressure to make espresso like a commercial machine. I drank coffee just to enjoy the coffee.
Then I quit drinking coffee all together for several years, just to see if I could.
2020 I started drinking again. I like the taste. I know that I can quit if I feel I’m using coffee as a crutch.
2020 is a year when most of the western world fell apart. My family and friends back in the US are suffering. Some are struggling. We have it much better here in Austria, but it is still tough. Now I buy coffee beans from my gym that is on lockdown. I think it is outstanding coffee, but I buy from them just as much to give them some additional income to get through the pandemic. I really enjoy the coffee — Brasil Catuai is my favorite. No one sees me drink it except maybe my wife and/or dog. For the record, they don’t give a shit either — except my wife keeps an eye on me that I don’t get too caffinated.
There are a lot of things I have missed in 2020. #1 being able to visit my ailing mother. Nowhere on the list of things I miss is acting like an entitled douche bag while buying overpriced coffee. I skip the overpriced coffee part and rant on Medium.
