My Life Can Be Summed Up In Coffee Cups
Or, am I just a just a Hoarder?
There is an old saying
The old saying goes like this; “Been there, done that, and I got the tee-shirt, to prove it.”
Whoever coined that phrase, should have included coffee cups.
I do not mean, because I have a lot of coffee cups, I drink a lot of coffee. No, that is too obvious.
What I am getting at is, I have so many coffee cups, with so many labels, logos, dates and times of what and where the event was, they can truly tell my history.
For example, I have a coffee cup of the college I went to years ago, “Go Dawgs.”
I was a teacher in part of my past work life, and I still am today. I have been to conventions all over Louisiana and Texas, and acquired a coffee cup for each visit. In my other more serious past work life, I have been to conventions from Las Vegas to St. Louis, to DC, and most every state along the Gulf. I have a coffee cup for each stop.
I have a few coffee cups from the Philippines, actually my wife does, and on special occasions, I can actually drink from one of the cups. Those cups aren’t going anywhere.
I’m a Car Guy
Pick a car, and I probably have a cup for it. Certainly, of the cars I have owned, there is a cup for those. A certain family member of mine is no help with my addiction either.
When I got my red Challenger seen in some of my articles, with my mom at the nursing home, a family member helped feed my addiction. She bought two exact tee-shirts that had the Dodge Logo’s on them. Not for me to wear, oh no, that was too obvious. She wanted me to use them as seat covers in the car. Brilliant.
For example: Right now, I am drinking coffee from a cup that has a red truck picture on it. In the back of the truck is a Christmas tree. One year, we took my red truck and got a Christmas tree. How can I throw that Christmas coffee cup away?
Am I a Hoarder?
BUSTED: Maybe I am with certain things. Most of the coffee cups are in storage anyway. Some even have chips on them I recently have found out. All of this is driving my wife crazy. I told her today, we will clean out the storage room this Saturday. All my cups can go. I am going to need a few handkerchiefs, or tissues.
And we have not even begun to talk about the Matchbook, and Hot Wheel cars I have collected since I was like seven. Between me and you, there is no way I am getting rid of those.
What I told my wife
We can throw away as many of the coffee cups as you like, I will not object to throwing anything you say. (Like I would ever object to what she says, lol).
The One Cup I will Always Display, and Keep
There is one cup I will never get rid of, and that is the cup at the top of this article. I had just bought that used1982 Corvette. Finally I could afford it. I drove it to my parent’s house when they/we were all much younger. Both of my parents had all their faculties, and wits about them.
I know, because I gave them a walk and turn test, as well as whistle your ABC’s backwards. (That was a funny one.) They sounded like two sparrows in a tree. I only did that to mess with them, and it was so funny.
Either way, I loaned them my car for their date night. The best part was telling my dad, “Okay young whipper-snapper you bring her home before dark. They both just laughed. He opened the door for her, and they drove off.
PS: Date night for them was anytime between 4:00pm and 6:00pm. When I told my Dad to have her home by 6:00, he whispered am or pm? What?
“Lalalalalalala, I do not want to hear that. Just go.”
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for the read.
By the way:
Do you have a hoarding issue with something? Or know someone who does?