COFFEE

As I drank my coffee on the balcony. A memory came to me.  Coffee drinking was a big deal apparently when I was little--still is.  People thought it funny to tease kids about getting "big"enough to drink it.  Like it was a passage to being grown up.  Some would even put it in kids milk to get them to taste it. I had an uncle, ( maybe it was my grandfather) can't remember which one, who was especially a big tease.  He would tell kids that if kids drank coffee before  they were old enough-it would turn them black.  No other explaining--just it would turn you black.  My mother would tell me not to pay any attention to what he said, but for years I was afraid to drink it,,  Not anymore.

Betty Boop