It's OK To Ask For What You Want

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This husband of mine…

Always…well almost always…orders coffee to drink when at an eatery…doesn’t matter if it’s breakfast…burgers…pizza…or tacos…coffee is his drink of choice…and always…well almost always…unless it’s IHop or we happened upon a rare family restaurant…the server…visibly flinches…

One of us…picks up on the awkwardness…the other…totally oblivious…if coffee’s on the menu…then by golly…gonna order coffee…but have to say…with his newly acquired awareness to the discomfiture…it’s kind of become…a fun little game…

Say coffee…and note the reaction…the pause…intake of breath…the…oh we don’t have coffee…or I’ll have to make a fresh pot…pause…pause…waiting for his…oh that’s ok I’ll just have something else…of which never comes…because…to him…a meal isn’t a meal…without a hot cup of coffee…so a man’s gotta do…what a man’s gotta do…

And so it is in life…sometimes it’s ok…to ask for what you want…and not give in…until you get it…
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And this coffee drinker of mine…agrees…