On Coffee and Good Taste

So there are a handful of things about me which my friends tend to criticize. At least there are a handful of things about me which my friends openly criticize. Lord knows what all they might say on the way home in the car after our usual get-togethers. Those were the same pants he's worn the past five times we've seen him. Or he's swelling up like a tick on a dog butt. Who knows. But openly they think my taste in music (I like to listen to "smooth jazz") is boring and my coffee is terrible.

I readily admit that I am not a coffee connoisseur. I only ask that my coffee is hot and black. I do not like iced coffee (or coffee ice cream), and I do not care to have flavorings added to my coffee. Nor do I think coffee should cost more than a buck, and even then the refills should be free. When I make coffee at home, I use two scoops of coffee, which works out to one teaspoon of coffee per cup. This is already ground coffee which I choose entirely on the basis of price, and which I keep on a shelf in the cupboard, not in the refrigerator. I know, I know, the "experts" (and my friends) tell me to use two tablespoons of coffee per cup, coffee ground from expensive beans only moments before I use it and which have been kept refrigerated, but then they also say I should make sure my coffee maker is clean. What do they know?

I mention this because the other day, I had a cup of coffee that my son-in-law John made. Hmmm, I thought. This is pretty good. Better than mine. It made me think that my friends may indeed be correct. Maybe I had been deluding myself all along about my coffee. So I asked John how he made it. It turns out he used less coffee than I do, only one and a half scoops. Next time I made coffee, I used the lesser amount of coffee grounds, and voila, good coffee.

It all made me think that my friends have no taste in music either.