This conversation took place this morning at our staff meeting while discussing an event my company will be hosting in the evening.
Other employee: "So, we're serving dessert after the main event right?"
Boss: "Yes, I have them all ordered, so we're good to go."
Other employee: "What about drinks?"
Me: "I've already bought bottled water, soft drinks and lemonade like we discussed. But wait, shouldn't we get some coffee and tea? When you serve dessert, people usually expect coffee. It goes with dessert."
After a long silence and evil look from my boss he says:
"If we cave in and serve coffee, next thing you know people will be asking for booze and other things. Nope, I don't think serving coffee is a good idea!"
Just so everyone knows, this event is not an LDS event, nor is the guest of honor LDS. If you tell your guests that we will be serving dessert, you're gonna bet that they'll expect coffee. Especially the non LDSers. And another thing! There's no way you can compare coffee to alcohol:
Coffee never tore families apart
It isn't illegal to drink coffee and drive
Coffee doesn't make your liver rot
No such thing as coffee-poisoning
Coffee doesn't have a legal drinking age
Nobody acts like a dooche, pukes, then passes out after too much coffee
Idiot
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Amen!
ask him if you can serve hot chocolate... just to see if he's against all "hot drinks not for the belly" - see the Word of Wisdom.
and once again joseph smith reaches out from to grave to stop yet ANOTHER party.
We have friends who attend art galleries and such all across the nation. They are LDS, but it's a gesture of good will to bring an expensive bottle of wine to the host or hostess. And they graciously accept a bottle of wine from others and re-gift it to someone who drinks. It's not a big deal. Drinking coffee is as mainstream as breathing. Seriously, hasn't your boss ever heard of Starbucks?!
That is just dumb! Coffee doesn't lead to alchol. I've heard other concervatives say that that or that leads to something else. They all just need to get a fat kick in the head. You boss needs to wake up, people drink coffee, people drink alcohol it's a fact of life deal with it!
my word verification was
fxcus!
Gayle - Thanks!
Nytro - I did ask him if it was ok for us to serve hot chocolate and cider at other events in liu of the holidy season. He was perfectly ok with that! Damn, he's such a moron sometimes.
Little Miss - That is the PERFECT way to deal with the situation!! A bottle of wine is meant as a gift, some are VERY expensive gifts. I applaude your friends for being so gracious and open-minded towards others.
Just Me - I was also planning on suggesting we serve wine, but after the verbal lashing I received from the coffee suggestion I dropped the whole thing. If you don't drink coffee or alcohol, there's no reason to be insulted if it's served. Nobody's forcing you to drink it, it's just being offered to those who do. Glad you also see the reasoning behind this.
the guy i work with has a brother that just got married to a mormon. her family insisted... INSISTED that there not be alcohol at the reception. nevermind that half of the people there were catholic. hey! you don't have to drink it... where do they get off controling what other people do? it's mind-boggling.
Nytro - how did the bride feel about it? I think that is really close minded of people to inforce their values on others.
Ooooh, don't even bring up the wedding thing. My poor sister's wedding was totally taken over by her mother in-law. She'll go off on a tangent on that one! Nici didn't want a recieving line, but her MIL INSITED on one. She also invited like 500 people to the reception, 100 of which she actually knew. The rest were just on the ward list. Can you beleive that crap??
My mother in law tried to invite the entire ward, I told her that she would have to pay for the invitations and the food they consumed. She quickly nixed the list to only 100 people.
i won't even comment!
that's why benny and i paid for our own wedding... so no one else could tell me what i could or could not have. turned out to be the biggest and best party this side of the mississippi! well, at least in the state of Utah, if i do say so myself.
in high school my mormon friends would always drink pepsi and coffee, but they would never tell their parents . . .
my parents don't drink it because it can be "addictive."
they get mad at me if i buy my sisters coffee too.
they aren't mormon. although they do have 7 kids.
my word verification was fioltk!
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