We have a similiar coffee journey. Although I actually started drinking horrible machine vendor made cappuccinos. It took me a while to get into it as you said, there werent coffee shops everywhere like there is now.
I dabbled with them and then lattes but swiftly fell away from them when they just kept getting made too milky. Then just a couple of years, maybe three I tried a flat white and thought ah, this is just right. And that has been me. I like an espresso with a meal, rather just after it. I dont think I will ever fall out with coffee!
Titans and coffee is a relationship that cannot be severed. Lol.
Funny how we sort of had the same journey. I'll be honest mate, I'll buy you a coffee and people-watch with you anyday. I'd say the stories we came up with for those people we were looking at would be entertaining...and once we had too much caffeine...well, I'd say then it'll get interesting!
Lol, that is one thing I bloody hate. The accidental imbibing of too much coffee and that utterly weird jittery feeling of caffeine overload!
Sounds like a great thing though. It is one of my favourite pastimes to just chill with a good coffee and a chat and a watch of the world go by!
One must coffee quaff, but too much quaffing and one may pay the price.
Quaffing and laughing but never spaffing for that goes too far!
One should only spaff when spaffing is requested. Non-appropriate spaffing is the height of rudeness. So uncouth.
Truly it is an art form. One which has fallen by the wayside like so many things
There may be a spaff revival you know...If enough people spaff all over the place others may follow and ye olde days shall live again.