Mugshot Monday - “Crappy Little Plastic Pizza Hut® mug that has Sentimental Meaning” w/ Guatemalan Dark Roast by Peace Coffee.
I took my first sip from this mug in 1990 in a 6th floor dorm room in Towers Hall North on the upper campus of the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. This girl I had met had a personal coffee maker along with a few choice mugs.
She’d buy her own coffee and brew up a pot whenever she wanted in her dorm room. This stood out to me as being really cool. First, college kids don’t have a lot of money, and beans ain’t cheap, but she decided drinking really good coffee was important. Second, most college kids had a microwave (not me, but my roommate did) and a mini-refrigerator (not me, but my roommate did), and here was someone who had their very own coffee maker? Dig.
Me and this girl eventually dated, and now we live together because we’re married, and I keep this crappy little Pizza Hut coffee mug around for sentimental reasons. It’s “crappy” because it’s too small for coffee and it’s plastic. But it’s actually pretty awesome to me because it brings back good memories. Reminds me of when my wife was my girlfriend and reminds me of all my college friends and of all the great times we had.
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