I went to Starbucks several years back and ordered a venti dark roast, black. Woman behind the counter gives me a thorough look and asks, “ Military?”
“No, but I am a military brat” was my reply.
“Oh, that explains it. It’s my experience that only two kinds of men drink coffee like that. Men who’ve been in the military, and those who’ve been in prison. I usually don’t ask the ones I think have done time.”
People get really weirded out by the black coffee crew, and flat out terrified of the red eye coffee drinkers.