So, I'm at the food market across the street from my office.
It's one of those places that occasionally has the samples out.
And I come to the coffee area. And lo and behold, there is a sample pot of coffee out.
And I'm a sucker for any sample, but especially we're talking about coffee.
So I go to reach for those little tiny sample coffee cups and as I do, I hear...
"Don't do it."
And I don't think much of it, since it's probably someone talking to someone else in the store.
Again I reach for the cups. And again...
"Don't do it."
So I turn around behind me, and there's this woman. She's not an employee, just another customer, and she's in conversation with someone else. But she's also looking at me as my hand is reaching towards the sample cups.
"Don't do it," she says. "The coffee--it's no good. It's old. It's been sitting out forever. It's lukewarm."
And I don't say a thing in return to her. But I have to admit I did shoot her a look. A look that says, "How dare you! How dare you cast your judgments on what I should and shouldn't have! How do you know that I don't actually like old, lukewarm sample coffee? You, a stranger who I have never met before in my life, just decide to cast your own decision on you think I shouldn't drink?"
And so...did I go ahead and show her how little I thought of her unsolicited input, and take that coffee against her wishes?
No.
Of course not.
Because I don't want to be seen as the weirdo drinking old, lukewarm sample coffee.
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