May 8th, 2007
Revisiting an old topic
Why do people find it necessary to slurp coffee?
If you want to drink that nasty shit, that’s fine, but why make it an auditory experience for everyone in your general vicinity? It’s a totally disgusting noise. It’s not socially acceptable to burp during a business meeting, why is it socially acceptable to suck coffee and air into your gullet in the loudest possible manner?
I’ve asked coffee drinkers (and to be fair… not all of them do it. I also know people who slurp soup… equally disgusting) and they deny that it makes it taste better. It’s just something they do.
It’s gross. Stop it.
And stop throwing cigarette butts out your window. Also disgusting. It’s littering, and you should be fined. But that’s a topic for another entry.
OK coffee is usually consumed at at temperature that will cause at least second degree burns. As a result it must be ingested with the proper air hot coffee ratio to lower the temp to a bearable level, hence the slurrping noise. Now the slurping is usually followed by the obligatory AHHHHHHHHH. Now cigarette butts need to be outlawed.
Ah. I get it. Now my job is to invent some sort of sound proof, non-business meeting interrupting, coffee cup.
I’ll get back to you on my progress. Stay tuned.
Maybe it’s just because we don’t drink coffee that we don’t understand the trials of coffee drinkers… but I’m with you, Matt. Slurping anything, including coffee (particularly during meetings), is simply bad manners. If we had bottles of water that we slurped with the excuse that it was too cold and would give us a brain freeze, people would point and laugh. Yet somehow, coffee slurping is widely accepted. Makes no sense.
A friend of mine working at a newspaper once wrote an editorial about how she had an irrational jolt of fear that cigarette butts thrown out car windows would incinerate the bottom of her car. I have the same reaction — I know it cannot happen, but what if it did? Or started a fire elsewhere? Yeesh.