msfledermaus | The Beverage Dictator...

...It's not even a scheduled workday for the guy, and yet the Beverage Dictator's on the loose, running around and complaining there's no coffee for him to make. *grumble*

The Beverage Dictator's kind of our resident employed crazy-guy...been here 30 years, and he knows how to make coffee, sure does, much better than you ever could!! Don't argue with him! Nobody appreciates all the coffee he makes for people!!! The coffee is always Folgers out of a can, and there's just something special he adds to the process that makes his coffee taste...bad...really just bad. It's that special cigarrete-butts taste of truly bad coffee that really does it for me. It's the beverage of last resort for caffeine-starved guards around here at the Jade Mines...

For a while I made the mistake of bringing in a little coffee of my own to make--a bunch of us were working early morning shifts, and we needed some decent coffee to get us going.
I'd come back from a break and find that the French Roast I'd only had a cup of had disappeared--and that the pot was full of Folgers again. The Beverage Dictator dumped out my coffee over and over until I learned to be a sneak and just make coffee on his days off...but not even the days off are really truly safe. Is the nice Chocolate Mocha-flavored coffee brought in by the morning captain going to be drunk up by happy and relieved early-morning people? Or is the Beverage Dictator going to srike? Only the mad roulette wheel of the Beverage Dictator's mind can really say...

But today, there is no coffee to make. The Beverage Dictator is muttering about going to the store to buy some more Folgers so he can have some coffee. At Work. On his day off...

I think I'll stick to tea today.:)