Buzz Kill

I think it started when I got the coffee later than I usually get coffee, at the McDonald’s drive thru funny how, when discussing a restaurant with a means to purchase food from your car, it is a drive THRU not a drive THROUGH, as if with the correct spelling of the word, the tendency is to change the pronunciation to THROW, a large with two creams and three Splendas, I was with The Boy after registering him for school around 10 AM this morning I remember asking where the cream and fake sugar packets were in the food bag and was surprised to find that they were already in the coffee now that I think about it I was wondering why the order taker was so specific in her questions about how many I wanted so anyway I didn’t start drinking the coffee until I dropped off The Boy and I took a sip as I pulled out of the driveway and it tasted burned at first but then that taste went away or I got used to it or something and subsequent drinks the coffee struck me as typical fast food restaurant watery coffee not the Starbucks mud I’m used to but in hindsight this was deceiving because when I got to work and had finished the coffee I wanted some more so I poured a cup from the air pot ha ha air pot which turned out to be a mistake because I ended up mixing two types of coffee which can have the effect of really fucking with your head and ratcheting up the caffeine buzz more than is manageable but by the time you realize it its too late and this time the buzz didn’t kick in it just stayed hidden until I went to get some Indian take out down the street and they had this HD TV hanging on the wall playing a Bollywood musical where the actors were dancing and jumping and every time the actors would jump the camera would go into bullet time like the Matrix and pan from left to right or right to left and the male lead was dancing and singing with the female lead on I SWEAR the African plains because there was this huge herd of water buffalo behind them stretching off into the distance and then it was the beach and then it was the African plains again and I asked the lady behind the counter for a large diet Pepsi to go TO GO and she seemed confused by the concept despite the fact that I had a to go container full of food from her restaurant and she spent five minutes looking for a fountain cup and finally found one under the counter but still had to ask another guy who told her yes that was the only to go cup they had and that concept just bounced around my head five or six times the strangeness of NOT HAVING TO GO CUPS for the soda fountain despite offering to go food I just could not get my head around that and I suddenly realized that DAMN but I’ve had way too much coffee today.