Neither Tea nor Bournvita...only Coffee

Disclaimer:All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Inner voice : Don't lie.You know you are simply faking it in the disclaimer.whom are you kidding?Think of all those people who read blogs to motivate themselves by reading about the miseries,affairs(the word sounds so inappropriate here)and plights of the writer.You can help them choose their drink after this.People don't even know that they have "such sensitive taste buds".They spent hourssss just caressing the tongue with different drinks.

Enlightment.Should be honest to my work and blog followers.Can see the halo over my head.

New revised disclaimer :All characters have been attempted to be made to look fictitious...poorly.You may not be mentioned but you're here.Any resemblance to real persons,living,dead or undead shows how you can read between the lines and eventually propels your intelligence.

(The Nescafe coffee shop.Bandini and MohMaya are in animated conversation.)

B:And I have to tell you about me and coffee... coffee and me; they have this amazing relationship. I never even knew that it existed; for this purpose also; that is. Not like that with bournvita/tea; at least not any more. No fun only..

MM:
That’s not what I recollect of bournvita/tea.It was reputed to be the drink with the sense of commonly loved taste.

B:
Not anymore. All tea does nowadays is cause lethargy, headaches, anxiety, irritability and insomnia.

MM: (Emphatically)
I don’t believe it.

B:
There’s something I have not told you.My likings for tea/bournvita has changed dramatically over the past 6 years.

MM:
Like what?

B:
Sounds silly but I don’t know how else to put it. It has become.... too hyped?? and is proclaimed to be a loved drink for all the wrong reasons.

MM: (Laughing)
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. Have you tasted a good drink?

B:(Angrily)
What do you mean by a good drink? I drink bournvita/tea and every biscuit that I can lay my hands on. It’s not that the liking for it has vanished completely.I still have a sip but few and far in between. Most of the times, it is excessively chocolaty. See,it already was a bit sweet. But now with XYZ new bournvita/tea, it has turned into an overrated drink.

MM:
An overrated drink? What do you mean?

B:
I mean even in the smallest of instance... everything from afternoon breaks in offices, to the deciding factor while choosing a bride, to the excuse behind the comatose exaggerated by most working crowd.... tea has to see some sinister conspiracy to derail coffee(a much accomplished drink both in taste and after effects in comparison) in everything.

MM:
So? What’s the problem with that?


N:
What do you mean “So what’s the problem with that?” Try drinking only tea for the rest of your life and you will never know the pleasure of drinking coffee.

MM:
What is your problem with tea?

B:
See,tea is just a tapri kind of a drink. It’s a good means of earning for tapriwale. That’s it. Drink. But don’t overdo it. I think tea lovers cross the line.

MM:
You were talking about tea.How many times do these tea lovers consume the drink?

B:
At every possible moment..

MM:
That’s it.

B:
That’s the problem. The same drink over and over and over again. Then pondering about when to have the next one....

MM:
Which are the places that encourage these addicts without a taste?

B:
Oh that I remember. Currently the favourite is The tapri ki chai... that small thela found in every nook and corner? Will drink it Over and over and over again and and then ask for some cigarettes/bhajiya/poha along with it...

MM:
Ek Will's ka packet dena Bhaiya.Account mein daal dena mere.

B: (Shouts with hands on her ears)
Please don’t I feel as if I am listening to them only.

MM: (Laughs)
And?

B:
..... And they want the coffee lovers like me to enjoy it with them. Some time back it was this new brand of bournvita called ‘XYZ’(Name changed.scandals have morals.gossip don't).. And only one sip of the drink if enough for you to figure out how sickly sweet the rest of the drink will be. Have you had the drink?

MM:
Yep. Fantastic sleep sweetner as the slog reads.

B:
Agreed. But an entire mug?two times a day?And then checking height and weight and solve sudoko to see any bouts of improvement.

MM:
Any more instances of these overrated drinks as you would like to call it?

B:
Oh yeah. Sample this. A few months ago we were going back from a party. It was almost midnight and I suddenly stopped at the Shankar Nagar tapri. My friend asked me what was wrong and I said look at those owls(the official "night riders" ) around the tapri. I told her it’s midnight and how can you have tea(mostly preferred) and poha at midnight?.She retorted by saying that Top off the tea..lubricates the grey matter. I said stop being juvenile and told her not to give me all that stupid philosophical shit about tea.

MM:
And what did she say?

B:
You won’t believe it. I still remember word to word. (Mimicking) ‘The perfect temperature of tea is two degrees hotter than just right”

MM:
Hmm... Interesting I hope you did not tell Daanav about your love for coffee?

B:
I have demonstrated that ample no. of times actually.

MM:
You are so goddam predictable. And what did Daanav say ?

B:
That it was very interesting to see the way I agree for almost anything when my blood system is supplied with caffeine.My diagnosis was “get her coffee and she will dance on her toes.”

MM:
Fancy term; and what did your lost tea friend say when she heard this?

B:
You wouldn’t want to know.

MM:
No. I want to.

B:Tea is more of a ritual than a mere habit now.It helps forget work stress or stress of any kind for that matter and helps us adjust to the sick society around us.Although it is not even close to being as classy as coffee and the feeling of alacrity it provides right from the first sip,tea is pet favourite of the commoners.After all not all possess the exuberant taste like Your Highness does.



MM:
Hmm.

B:
It’s not about getting back at tea/bournvita or something like that. coffee has a deeper meaning in my life now.
Have some pity. Are you my friend or what? I have fallen in love with coffee at the age of 21.

MM:
And you don’t love bournvita which was your breakfast n evening drink for four years ?

B:
The bournvita I know no longer exists . The question of love does not arise.It has changed and I think it is irreversible. Even if it is not, I no longer have the patience to wait for the day when it will become my bournvita again.

MM:
And do you still love cornflakes n milk?

B: (Irritated)
I don’t know.

MM:
You are not planning to tell your tea loving friend about how you feel about tea, are you?

B:
Sweetheart, can’t you see? I definitely have to tell her. Such things do not remain under wraps for long. The problem is tea/bournvita is so much of a turn off now that I really don’t know how she will react to my love affair with COFFEE.