Never Leave Old Coffee at your Desk

[achtungbaby]

It was a reflex reaction -- instinctive, done without thinking...

...I'm working at my desk, concentrating on a document, and with my left hand I reach over and grab my coffee thermos and take a swig...

...the coffee thermos that was last re-filled five days ago...!

*horror music plays in background*

I realized this just as the tasty fluid filled my mouth (sounds a bit erotic!).

But I would not swallow.

I immediately grabbed my trash can and spit it out, with a "Ee-yuck!"

[kasia]

ew. *barf* least you didn't ash in it.

[Chester]

ew. *barf* least you didn't ash in it.
Good call.

But, really...at least it wasn't your chewing tobacco spit cup.

[Martino]

It was a reflex reaction -- instinctive, done without thinking...

...I'm working at my desk, concentrating on a document, and with my left hand I reach over and grab my coffee thermos and take a swig...

...the coffee thermos that was last re-filled five days ago...!

*horror music plays in background*

I realized this just as the tasty fluid filled my mouth (sounds a bit erotic!).

But I would not swallow.

I immediately grabbed my trash can and spit it out, with a "Ee-yuck!"

"Ee-yuck"? What's that, an Amish expletive?

I've been known to nurse a cup of Skybury blend for anything up to five hours whilst working. Never occured to me to keep a thermos of the stuff to hand, to get that really gritty real coffee flavour.

Of course, the downside is I haven't slept in two years, and my eyes can look in two directions at the same time.

So you don't swallow then? Why not? It might be like home made Yakult, full of friendly bacteria ... or maybe just indifferent bacteria. You could bottle and sell it as a feng shui health drink to rice queens, they'd lap it up (or just drink it normally I suppose).

Now tea, there's a drink you can't let stew. Do Americans or AAs drink lots of tea?

Can you get tea bags in the US?

Oops, I think I'm a bit drunk. Possibly.

[Faithless]

I immediately grabbed my trash can and spit it out, with a "Ee-yuck!"
Is that the difference between coffee and tea?

I think I've left tea around like that, in an open cup, but came back to it. :frown:

[nonamerasian]

My tea has to be fresh.

Dunno about coffee.

I don't drink the stuff.

[myself808]

myself left a cup of tea with, say, one swallow left, on my desk over the weekend, on Monday there was mold and a dead roach floating in there.

[flip19]

why not?

Cold coffee, like pizza, is still good whenever wherever.

[yoMAMA]

coffee from 10 minutes ago tastes like puke.... :tongue:

[thaite]

man, I do this all the time.

[kimpossible]

I drank old coffee in college plenty of times. Three minutes in the microwave can kill just about anything.