A strange habit of New Yorkers: the morning coffee
It’s been a while since a little problem keeps bugging me. It is about the way New Yorkers are depicted in movies regarding to their morning coffee habit.
I’ve observed that in movies people tend to get up, get dressed, go out and buy some coffee, then return home and drink it. Really, what’s the problem with New York people?!
There are tons of ways in which you can make your own coffee. Simple ways and more complicated ways. Ways for everyone. Isn’t it easier to get the coffee package, take some coffee into a spoon, put it in your cup and then fill it with hot water? (I guess this is the simplest way to make a coffee). Or you could just buy yourself an espresso machine… Really, it is very simple. A little kid could do it.
It surely is way more complicated to get dressed and go out to buy a fricking coffee.
I am well aware that some of them, during working days, prefer to get up, get dressed and on the way to work just grab a cup of coffee from any coffee-to-go station. But this is not what I am talking about. I am referring to the precise situation depicted in movies where two persons make love and in the morning one of them goes out to buy some coffee.
So, my question: why does it seem that New Yorkers are unable to make coffee for themselves? And please don’t tell me that the one from town is better, because you could literally buy some extremely good quality ground coffee and with it you will drink a very good coffee. So why do they act like this?! This is nonsense!
3 Comments
Amanda
Interesting point of view!
I understand your concern and I have to admit that I also wondered about it.
It just occured to me that the problem might be that the persons involved often are depicted making love for the first time with each other and usually this happenes at home, at one of them. So the other person gets up earlier and doesn’t want to stick his/her nose in his/her lover’s things. The person want to be nice and she/he goes out and brings some coffee. It is more polite in this manner. I guess…
Eva
Hi, Amanda! Thanks for your comment. You might be right, it makes sense. Maybe they are just too polite to go in the kitchen by themselves and search for coffee. On the other hand, there are a lot of terms and conditions for this situation to take place and in movies it happens way more often than it should. But I guess you are right, it might answer my question.
Kitty
I think Eva might actually have a point. I know people who go out in PJs and a robe, in a Sunday morning, to buy a cup of coffee. They are extremely lazy, but as Eva pointed out, going out takes more effort than making your own coffee at home.