I love coffee: the taste, the caffeine, the whole coffee-shop experience.  I don’t go a single morning without that smooth, bitter, dark and sexy liquid goodness. So as I sipped my morning americano, I got to thinking:  what is it about coffee and the coffee experience that’s so….intoxicating?

People congregate at coffee shops as if in a house of worship. Ask any coffee drinker and they will tell you that they must worship to the coffee gods daily. In fact, most people are more devoted to their morning cup of coffee than they are to their faith. Walk into any coffee shop and just take a look around. It’s like all the people are hypnotized. Some are entranced with others while sipping the mysterious brew, others still are alone often sharing their delirium with their laptops or a dreadfully wonderful book. Either way, the coffee shop crowd has a certain look in their eyes that’s unique to the drink.

So, how far are some people willing to go to make their coffee experience more sublime? Well, Café Grumpy, a gourmet coffee chain, is charging $12 for a cup of coffee. Apparently a $5 cup is no longer acceptable. In this society of excess and perhaps even gluttony, we might be seeing a cup of coffee for roughly the price of a luxury martini. The “Grumpy” coffee shop, a Brooklyn establishment, pimps itself as being a small shop that roasts its own beans. It says that it can command such high prices because it takes so long to develop and process. The selections of coffee change often. The current offering is called Nekisse and the shop describes it as "very clean, sweet, complex cup with tropical fruit notes of pineapple, kiwi and key lime."

I would not spring for a $12 cup of coffee every morning. That’s insane—and it’s also the average price of lunch! Maybe on a lazy Sunday afternoon with a New York Times and my husband…otherwise, I would leave the coffee shop too “grumpy.”

I’ll stick to my Starbucks. Nothing gets me happier in the morning than my green and white cup with that siren emblem smiling back at me. It’s always perfect with every sip. Ergo, when I hear stories like the following one, I get my undies in a bunch.

Zeynep Inanli is suing Starbucks for being burned by a tea. He, claims that he suffered "great physical pain and mental anguish.” Give me a break.

HELLO! It’s hot tea! Of course it’s hot! Apparently Inanli claims that the tea was “unreasonably hot.” What does that mean? What is unreasonably hot tea? A tea is either hot or iced. If you order a hot tea, it’s going to be hot—or at least you would expect it to be such. People have already made millions suing coffee-serving establishments. In fact, years ago in 1994 a woman made millions suing McDonalds for serving her coffee without a warning label for its hotness. Now, every cup of hot liquid tells you that “hey dummy, what you are about to drink is hot.”

Maybe we’re not all as smart as we should be or have the requisite amount of common sense we need to function as human beings. From the moment we place our orders at the drive through to the pickup menu, some of us geniuses forget that we ordered a hot drink—and the fact that the drink is warm in our hands when we get is means nothing to us. These people shouldn’t be allowed to even go through a drive through line, if you ask me. They’ve clearly been “over-served.”