Thanks a lot Campus Crusade. I never drank coffee. I never liked coffee. It smelled great but tasted bitter. I'm not a coffee drinker! But then in 2007 I went to the Campus Crusade for Christ Christmas Conference (alliteration!). Also known as CCCCC. Not the catchiest title.
Anyways my mentor, Jeff, found out that I didn't give coffee the time of day. He was appalled! Why people get appalled when others don't like something that other people suffer "caffeine headaches" from I'll never know. We probably just want another person to support the addiction :). Jeff knew better than to take me to the Starbucks in the hotel and order me a cup o' Joe. Nobody likes Joe at first. He looks great from afar, but he is a bit stand off-ish. Especially if he wasn't a family friend to begin with.
No, Jeff ordered me a mocha.
He ordered 2 actually and put them on the table in front of me and my friend Kevin (also not a coffee drinker). He said he would leave them there while we all talked. If we wanted to try it we could, but no pressure. I'll admit I was skeptical. It looked like coffee that learned some manners, but underneath it was going to be the same ol' Joe. But then I took a sip.
I was wrong.
Very wrong.
All of a sudden I was soaring through the clouds! It was delicious! I couldn't believe it! It was coffee laced with cocaine!
Okay maybe it wasn't that great, but nevertheless it became my gateway drug. From then on whenever Cassie wanted to go get coffee I would join her and get a mocha. By the time my birthday rolled around in April she bought me an espresso machine.
I was hooked. Did I become addicted? No. I actually drink coffee maybe once a week. But now I like coffee. I respect it. It DOES taste good!
So thanks Jeff. Thanks CCCCC. I now understand what the rest of the world is talking about.
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It was the chocolate for me. I, too, have crossed over to the Dark Side because of the smooth seduction of the Mocha.
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