When you
drink coffee on a
regular basis, especially when its primary
purpose is to keep
awake, you begin to develop a
resistance against it. Eventually you find that your daily mug of coffee no longer
increases you awareness, it only
maintains it - without it you feel
run down and
irritable.
So you make it stronger.
It may be a half
teaspoon at first, but then after a while you you find that even with the half teaspoon it's
no good.
So you make it stronger.
And then you add a little more. Say a teaspoon. This lasts a few days, and you figure you've definitely
hit the spot. Then, maybe a few days
down the track, the
latte punch has mysteriously
deflated.
So you make it stronger.
This is the
limit, you
swear. No more after this... But then, you think to yourself, with this much coffee shouldn't you be feeling something with more
pizazz?
So you make it stronger.
And after that, well
heck, what's a few more teaspoons to what you've already got?
So you make it stronger.
Then, maybe a few
weeks, or
months, or
years down the track, you lift the
spoon to find your
mug stuck to it. And you realise that inside your
humble mug, contains enough coffee to run a
stock exchange for several weeks.