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I know it's not the same, but my peeve is guests who have to have COFFEE OMG coffee first thing. I drink coffee. It's made by 7 am at the latest. But my priority is getting up with my daughter and getting her needs met. My parents and in-laws are practically chomping at the bit. If I don't set it up the night before, my dad rattles around at 5:45 making it. At least he's clean about it. My MIL will get grounds and water everywhere. With my ILs, I make a full pot, have one small cup myself, and they want another full pot.  :shock:

It's just like...calm down. When I'm a guest in someone else's home, I drink a cup if there is a pot, when it is made, and I don't go sniffing around for it.[/quote]

"It's not important to me, and thus it shouldn't be important to anyone!"

Set up the coffeemaker the night before. Leave the stuff out so they can make a second pot if they want one. Buy cheap coffee if this is a budget issue. Otherwise, stop policing what other people ingest. [/quote]

How hard is this?

And to complain about them getting their own coffee?  Seriously?[/quote]

Can you not read? She does make the coffee by 7 am. She does set it up the night before. She drinks coffee, too. The issue is not providing coffee, it's the "rabid coffee drinker attitude," which IS annoying, at home and, in my case, at work.

Calm down. It's just coffee.[/quote]

Yeah, and some people (like me!) don't want to wait an hour or two for someone to finally get around to making it.  Just set it up the night before so that they can turn it on.  What is the big deal?  It almost seems like a power trip to make people wait around for you to decide when they can (finally!) get a cup of coffee in the morning.
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You've already figured out that the easiest thing for everyone and that makes your guests comfortable is to just make it the night before, so why wouldn't you?

Also, FYI, some people depend on that first wonderful cup to encourage that first morning poop (sorry to be crass, but there it is) -- and as you get older, digestive issues can arise.  With 4 people probably looking on the back side of 60, it may be asking a lot to make them continually wait around an hour or two longer than they're used to to get into their morning routine just because you deem their request to be not important.

Finally, to the person suggesting the coffee drinkers are addicts, you may be right.  But it's not a moral failing.  Just because their bodies respond differently than yours to something that's widely accepted in our culture doesn't mean you have to treat them like a nuisance.  [/quote]

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