I am not the type of person that will drink a strong cup of coffee shamelessly after evenings. I have no intentions of disrespecting the age old Italian rule of "no cappuccino" after lunch! Even if I do want to, I will have just a decaf cup.
But today I have to break all the rules. I have been on the run the whole day and finally the movers have delivered all my belongings from my old house to this new home. I am exhausted as f**k but I need to unpack and get my new home in order. The only thing that is going to invigorate me and give me the mental strength at least to get started is a nice strong cup of the creamiest Latte, maybe with some ginger toasts to go along with it.
But then I remembered I haven’t yet unpacked my espresso machine, so I'd have to do without the latte for now. I decided well, coffee is coffee. I'll just have to be content with a strong cup of manually brewed coffee over the stove...something like a cup of Turkish coffee. I walked over to the stove and turned on the gas. I added the ground coffee and waited for it to come to a boil. And then the strangest thing happened.
As the beautiful aroma of the coffee started to spread, all of my boxes started to move on the spot first. Then they started to bark and mew. What the f...
I quickly walked over to the boxes and opened one up. To my horror, inside was a cage with two cats! I think I should mention here that I do not own any pets of any kind. I actually dislike pet animals, birds are fine. So you can imagine the shock when I found a cage with two cats in it among one of my boxes.
I opened another box and lo and behold! A cage with dogs now! Barking away! Frantically I opened up all the boxes and it was all cats and dogs! I was furious! Where were my boxes? The movers have delivered the wrong boxes. With all the barking and mewing of the dogs and cats I couldn’t catch a break to think straight. My coffee had boiled. I went over and quickly poured me a cuppa. The aroma was beautiful. I closed my eyes and started to sip my coffee in search of peace. But somehow, me drinking the coffee only agitated the pets even more.
My head was about to explode when my phone started to ring.
Hello..? I picked up.
Hi, is this Dr. X? An old fragile voice replied, sounding a bit anxious.
Yes, who is it?
I am Mrs. Helena. I think there was a mixup in our delivery and I was delivered some boxes with your name and contact number on it.
Of course! I wrote my name and contact number on all my boxes. I quickly glanced at the boxes in my living room to look for a name. There it was! Helena Abbigail, Cats and Dogsville!
And I think I have your cats and dogs Mrs. Helena. I replied.
Oh thank goodness, I was worried sick! The lady sounded elated.
It was quite late already and we wouldn’t get any movers to fix the error at this time. Mrs. Helena had apparently already talked with the movers and they would fix their mistake first thing tomorrow morning.
Before we ended our conversation, I asked Mrs Helena, if you don't mind telling me...how do I calm down your pets? They've been going nuts and I'm afraid I'll lose my mind if it goes on the whole night!
Oh don't you worry dear! Just make them some coffee....nothing fancy, just any brew will do. My pets love coffee just like myself!
The cats and dogs drink coffee??!! It was hard for me to hide my amazement! I might juuust like these pets!
After I hung up the phone, I made some more coffee. As the coffee brewed on the stove, I went outside to buy some one-time bowls. I came back and poured the coffee into the bowls and gave it to the pets. Like magic they all went quiet!
Coffee drinking cats and dogs! I'll never forget this one!