More Caffeine

I've had a pop at tea drinkers, but don't think you coffee addicts get off scot free.

Working in London, you get used to a lot of things which our more suburban/country cousins would think are just plain stupid. One in particular is the whole 'carry my coffee to work' thing.

It can start before they even get on the train - they stand on the platform with their plastic-lidded cardboard cup of tall-skinny-caramel-decaff-mocha-choca-latte, cradling it like a precious jewel. The same cup can last them the whole commute - train, tube and walk to the office - all the while holding it up like an Olympic torch, trying to avoid spills and getting in everyone's way, but all the time making sure to take a sip every 5 mins or so. Finally they arrive breathless in the office plonking it down on their desk. Surely by this time it is stone cold?

What I want to know is whether this is caffeine addiction or the the first signs of OCD? I can't think of any logical reason why you wouldn't just wait till you get into the office and have your cuppa there? Not only do you save yourself £3.50, but you then have two hands free to hold on to the handrail on the tube and read your Harry Potter book.