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With Friends Like These…

October 26, 2007 By Jenny Ryan 3 Comments

Last fall I was able to visit with some old friends from my elementary school days who live out in the Pacific Northwest.

They love coffee.

I do not.

But they did turn me onto the deliciousness that is Chai Tea Lattes, for which I am grateful.

As we were talking about getting together again this fall I mentioned how much I’ve been enjoying my (non-coffee) lattes. This was one friend’s response:

“Yes, we are the people who have helped you become the person who today can be forced into doing things through peer pressure.”

Filed Under: Playing Well With Others Tagged With: peer pressure

Coffee Is The New Black

October 9, 2006 By Jenny Ryan 19 Comments

Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

Back when I was in high school peer pressure was easy to spot, and there were always very clear-cut reasons available to me for saying “No”. Smoking? Um, no thanks, on account of all the cancer and all the death. Drinking? Hm, think I’ll pass, as I have no desire for my parents to kill me for engaging in such behavior. Sex? I couldn’t stand anyone else’s children; I certainly didn’t want any of my own.

But by the time I finally finished school, got married, and entered my thirties, I began to relax. Surely, I thought, the time of being scorned for being “different” had passed.

Oh silly, naive woman.

All that getting older meant was that I was now eligible to experience Peer Pressure For The 21st Century. What might that be, you ask? Only every time someone turns to me and says, “Hey, you wanna go and get some coffee?” Because no, I don’t. And apparently, the fact that I am thirty-four years old and do not drink coffee makes me just as much of a nerd now as I was back when I wore maroon knee socks to the first day of eighth grade. [Read more…] about Coffee Is The New Black

Filed Under: All About Me, Playing Well With Others, The Naked Truth Tagged With: i do not like coffee, peer pressure

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