If I get coffee, how much will your opinion of me go down the tubes?
[She says that, but really, she wouldn't get coffee. Coffee in the UK tastes like backwater swill - she brings her own from home whenever she's spending more than a month or so in England.]
I just can't help myself. [ he allows a small pause of faint but serious consideration. ] I suppose I would have to forgive you, the same way I forgive myself every groggy morning that calls for something with more kick than a mug of Earl Grey.
I wouldn't have gotten through graduate school without at least one or two coffees a day, though I am pretty fond of a good cup of tea. It's just that in the United States, I could never get it to taste right.
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Which one is your favorite? Delicacy of Harrods, I mean.
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[ he looks a little sheepish, but also somewhat wolfish at the same time. ]
Of all the things one can find in Harrods, and yet I shoehorn myself firmly into my country's beloved stereotype.
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If I get coffee, how much will your opinion of me go down the tubes?
[She says that, but really, she wouldn't get coffee. Coffee in the UK tastes like backwater swill - she brings her own from home whenever she's spending more than a month or so in England.]
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I just can't help myself. [ he allows a small pause of faint but serious consideration. ] I suppose I would have to forgive you, the same way I forgive myself every groggy morning that calls for something with more kick than a mug of Earl Grey.
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[She blames the water, whole-heartedly.]