Rant #3,267: Java

I am continuing to improve, continuing to gain increased mobility through my crutches and my walker--

And all I need is a haircut to make me feel even better than I do right now.

My wife is just so busy doing so many things that it is difficult for her to take me to the barber.

I wish that Floyd the Barber from "The Andy Griffith Show" lived right next door to me, but he doesn't.

And then we have coffee...

With all the TV I have Bern watching as I get better, I have noticed that there is an incredible amount of coffee being consumed on sitcoms from the 1950s and 1960s.

Characters on "Leave It To Beaver," "The Donna Reed Show," and just about every sitcom from that era drink coffee all day 

And it was around no matter what they were doing or eating. I remember one episode of "I Love Lucy" where they drank coffee with their meal in an Italian restaurant.

And what were they eating?

Pizza!

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and every time in between, the adults on these series drink coffee morning, noon and night.

And when they have company, out comes the coffee urn.

I really didn't notice this until now, but the coffee flows on these shows.

I think it was just reflective of the time.

My mother was a huge coffee drinker in her younger days, and the coffee pot was on the burner and at the ready all day, every day.

It was just later on that she found that she couldn't handle the caffeinated stuff, and had to move wholly over to decaf.

And you think thst "coffee-mania" is only a recent phenomenon!

Me, I never got into coffee, or tea for thst matter.

I asked my wife the other day what the small coffee she bought at Starbucks cost her, and she replied, "Five dollars ... and that's why I only go out to buy coffee once a week."

In the days of these TV shows, I think $5 would have gotten her a month's worth of coffee.

Now, she barely gets a small cup of the stuff for thst amount of money.

My father only really drank coffee socially, although he would drink it on the weekend 

My sister is a coffee drinker, but somehow, the yen for coffee completely bypassed me.

I like milk, soda and seltzer.

Those are my go-to beverages of choice.

And on Monday, we go to Martin Luther King Day.

My wife will drink coffee and I will have my usual drinks of milk, soda and seltzer during that day.

Even though it is a federal holiday, it is like any other day to me.

In fact, I never had the day off when I was working full time, so why change now?

I will be back here on Monday.

Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.

Maybe I can listen to "Java" by Al Hirt as I while away yet another Monday.