Bad Coffee, Good Company

Big things in life tend to not bother me too much. For some reason it's the small things that annoy me.

Last night I had an awful cup of coffee. I ordered a regular latte from the Riatzza cafe in Dun Laoghaire and it was just bad. Now, I'm no coffee connoisseur, but I can tell a bad cup of coffee when I taste one. I'm not even talking about an instant coffee which you just expect to be bad - this was a "freshly brewed" cup. I think maybe the grounds were burnt or something 'cause it just tasted nasty and I ended up throwing it away - all three euro worth of it! I was really annoyed. I should have gone back and complained.

Fortunately I was out on a date with my wife so I wasn't going to let a cup of coffee spoil my evening. With a toddler and another baby on the way we don't get out much :-(

I wound up sharing my wife's hot chocolate as we sat in the car with the windows open, listening to the sea lap at the shore.

Beautiful.