The Fancy Coffee Machine

In my new office, we have a fancy coffee machine.

It boasts a number of options for the weary employee suffering from work-sickness. Options include "NesCafe", "Nestea", "Lemon Tea", "Cappuccino", etc...

Yesterday I had tea. It was OK (a bit less sweet for my taste)

The day before that I had Nescafe. It was pretty good.

I think the coffee tasted good, because this machine uses fresh milk instead of the powdered one used in many other offices (including my previous one).

Today I decided to be a bit more adventurous.

It was afternoon. The food had begun to settle down inside my tummy. The eye-lids were beginning to rediscover gravity - once again. I was fighting a loosing battle against the mighty post-lunch stupor...

So I went to get some Coffee. Instead of the regular Tea or Coffee, the glutton in me directed my finger to press the "Lemon Tea" option. There was the gush and the woosh as the machine spewed out its innards into my cup.

I looked at the contents of my cup. This did not look like Lemon Tea. It was a frothing mosaic of white and brown. I went ahead and had a sip. And my sweet-tooth was highly disappointed – so much so that it ordered my head to start aching. It tasted somewhat bitter - like those exotic forms of coffee I so detest – the ones people call cappuccino or something...

Not one to waste edible stuff though, with supreme effort, I managed to finish it all off…

I had gone to get refreshments, and instead had to settle for a headache...