Rory, your wearing yesterdays clothes and drink other peoples coffee. Your only one step from living on a park bench. You better have a cold shower tonight and snap yourself out of it!

No.

I have in fact felt the urge to sip off of other people's coffees - particularly the foofy varieties I would never order. "Half two-percent half skim double-chocolate triple-shot hazlenut-vanilla iced mocha. With whip. Please."

While the thought of actually consuming such an atrocity holds about as much appeal as drinking motor-oil infused corn syrup, I inevitably find myself nearly drooling over these forbidden beverages during transport to their rightful owners. Mostly curiosity, I think. Food and drink belonging to someone else always seems to taste better. Perhaps it's the mystique, the tantalizing nature of the Off-Limits. Odd though, yes.

However Rory, before you take too much comfort in our commonality, it must be admitted that I have been established to be a poor representative of "the average human." At any rate though - I do it too.

Mmmmmm .. coffee ... *slurp*

Horribly enough, yes.

Some of the most frightening moments of my life are when I suddenly get this crazy idea and have the insatiable urge to do it...like sitting at the opera and wanting to join in the chorus or driving along a mountain road and thinking "You know, if I just *twitched* the steering wheel, I'd go flying off into space."

When speaking of transporting other's food, though, the worst by far is hot chips (fries, fries my beloved Americans, fries)...after all, no-one would mind just ONE gone and it wouldn't actually mean me touching the rest of the food...I had a particularly difficult 15 minutes in a car full of other people's fast food once.

Happens all the time with me. Till the time I knew you alos did it, or had the urge , I thought it was normal.
Now ofcourse , I am wiser.

Naaaaaahhhhh! Dont be scared!

Now, my first degree was in Anthropology, no need to say I did another one shortly after in computer science do actually *work*!

Our genes are the results of billions of years of adaptation to our world. Now, the social way that we now live in (by that I mean society, caring for human beings witch are not the product of our sexual activity, getting coffees at starbuck, ...) is pretty new to our genes, that way of living isn't much older than a few hundreds years... our genes didn't catch that yet, we are not in the era that this kind of social activity actually put a natural selection pressure (like... I'm good at getting coffees at starbucks, now the chicks are mine, got it ? Now this is a proper natural selection pressure response!)

So, your genes only sent the proper response to your brain, your quite old and "survive at all cost" genes are only saying to you, or sending message like "Hey Rory, this coffee is yours, you're the king here" your genes are only telling you to acquire, take possession of what it thinks it's yours!

Your social brain, the one that went to school, is nice with the others (well... sort of) is bright enough to at least asking itself "Man... am I crazy... why do I think of taking a sip in each of these coffees ?" Wich is pretty much self conscious, it actually in the process of trying to understand your inner self, witch means your quite a bright and conscious guy, witch didn't suprise me. I read your stuff for a while now!

Anyway, all your genes were telling you is "Take this territory!" Your dog may pee here and then to take what is his territory. Taking a sip from each coffee is a way to actually make these coffees yours!

Now... don't start do what your dog may do!!! And, in my next MSDN show I'll keep in mind not to ask you, *EVER* to bring me coffee!

See ya!

Whatever you do, do not search for the word "food" on grouphug.us

Actually, I get more of an urge to taste other people's food when I go get lunch for everyone. foooooood......

I often have to hold back a nasty urge to clear out people's recycle bins or line up their icons. But sampling their food seems pretty normal to me...

Never had Star Bucks coffie, i drink Second Cup up here in Canada!!

Tea? are you on Tea now?!

Oddly, no I've yet to have that urge, but then again, I never PLAN to go out for coffee, so I can't offer to get other people a cup. I just wonder around the town during lunch and lo! a mermaid logo appears in front of me and a cup follows me back like a puppy.

Of course, I consulted for about a year before signing back onboard with MS, so maybe people are afraid I'll cut their bollocks off!

I've had the urge, and to be honest I never really considered whether it was something to be concerned about or not. I've never actually had a sip from every cup, except when the coffee was for my wife. In that case, though, I claim spousal rights.

Of course, in a case where I'm actually *pouring* drinks, I consider it completely reasonable to sip from each glass to even them out, so everyone gets the same amount.

That's ok, right?

Since my coffe was one of the ones you went for, I am interested in the thoughts going through your coffee pilfering mind. Knowing you and germs are not the best of friends, I find it very Fruedian that you wanted to drink a little of each one, there by deploying your germs across the coffee drinking masses. You don't like germs so you are giving yours away for free? I have no problem with germs so I don't mind if you stole a little sip.

Why does the vision of an Alien baby ripping up through my stomache after germanically seeding itself into my belly via a virus distributed through tainted Starbucks coffee keeps playing in my mind?

I enjoyed my coffee (with or without germs)and just wanted to say thanks for fixing me up on what was a cold and rainy day.

Mikeo

Hey, Mike -

"I have no problem with germs so I don't mind if you stole a little sip."

But I didn't steal a sip!

I just *wanted* to, and that was enough to make me feel dirty.

Tea is awesome. Try Tazo's China Green Tips, it tastes like spinach.

who created the Starbucks Coffie ( Logo )

What does Rory Eat?

The address for that Tilt-A-Whirl link has changed:

http://www.randomterrain.com/personal-tilt-a-whirl-tribute.html