Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

1. Decide to make coffee.
2. Get coffee mug.
3. Get milk from fridge.[*]
4. Notice that the carton of milk I picked up the last time I was shopping is actually buttermilk, not the kind of milk I'd thought I was reaching for.
5. Think about this for a minute.
6. Decide I don't want coffee all that badly after all.
7. Put back coffee mug.
8. Pour a glass of buttermilk to drink.

Er ... and then a little bit later:

9. Compose LJ entry.
10. Suddenly remember having watched my father do something similar when I was younger.

(My father was going for a glass of milk, not to put into coffee (which he took black), and he got as far as tasting it, making a face, thinking the milk had gone bad, and being about to throw out the rest of the carton, before he noticed that it was buttermilk, thought about it, and decided that it was perfectly good buttermilk and worth enjoying on its own terms even if it hadn't been what he'd gone into the kitchen to get.)

[*] I've got a single-cup filter-holder, so when I make a single cup of coffee, I usually put the sugar and milk in the bottom of the mug first, then put the filter holder, filter, and coffee on top. So I'm doing almost everything while the water is boiling, and once it's all dripped through, all that's left for me to do is stir and drink.