Cup of Joe Meets Musical Theatre

The morning isn’t the same without you. I wake and anticipate your perky warm company.
I couldn’t start my day without you. You brighten my mood, and spark my energy. I can’t wait to wrap my hands around you.

The sound of your perkiness slowly drips into my mug or cup. Each morning begins with holding you, in my hands.

No, no, it’s not just me. So many others count on you too. Strong, instant, pressed, pour over, medium, blonde, dark, hot, cold. Your delivery brightens the rainiest of days. The weary no longer dreary.

Your sweet aroma fills the room, with your roasted, finely blended beans. Those soothing, scents that wrap around your nose and let you know it’s time to start your day.

You can be found at a drive through. Where ordering coffee turns into musical theatre. The banter between two singers on a microphone at the drive up stage. Each musical notation marked, repeated back and exploring verse. Of course size is important, tall, grande, venti. That’s not enough information.

Hot, cold, it could be seasonal too. Spring cold brew, summer iced, fall pumpkin spice latte.

But there is more, poured over iced, vanilla latte, Frappuccino, caramel, mocha, roasted hazelnut, sweet vanilla, macchiato, brewed, instant,1/2 cafe, decaf, sugar free, double shot.
We did our song and now dancing around the world with the many places when the statement is made. “Just a single cup of coffee please.

Well now, we need to know places and origins. Would you like, Costa Rican, Columbian, Nicaraguan, or maybe Brazilian to brighten your day?

This is where the barista is synonymous with the main performer in our musical theatre production of making a “caramel macchiato.” All eyes on them, waiting for your order.

Wondering in a lack of coffee daze about the many complicated devices and machines and things to make one single cup of, not ordinary coffee. The many people to take your order and deliver a single cup of coffee in a paper cup is extraordinary!

Until tomorrow my cup of joe. Where I anticipate a cup of your customized deliciousness based on origin, superlatives, many adjectives and a single performance of making a cup of coffee.

Dawn Jacobsen is a wife, Mother of three, one fur baby, writer, artist, humorist and recovering real estate broker from Colorado.Residing on Hilton Head Island.Beach life has become equally as enjoyable as golf, pickleball or scouring antique stores to add to my oyster plate collection.