something they don't teach you in school...

COFFEE MAKES YOU HAVE TO PEE VERY VERY FREQUENTLY!!!! I was heading home from Alberta last night, it was cold and crazy icy and snowing and all that fun prairie winter stuff, and I had had 3 large coffees already. (Now please understand that until yesterday I had never, ever had a cup of coffee. Yes I had had a sip before but it tasted like tar so I never drank the stuff.) So I am trucking along the number 1, between Calgary and Medicine Hat and, as anyone who has been on that road knows, there are about 3 towns on the way. (If I had money, I would start my own town and place it somewhere in there just so there'd be another town!) Anyway, I had to really pee. Now it wasn't one of those "I'll stop at the next town, get a drink, and if I remember I have to go, I will" kinda things... it was a "I am about to warm up my seat in a way I don't want to" kinda thing. Naturally, being from Saskatchewan (that makes sense if you've seen our 'welcome to the province sign') , I pulled over onto a gravel road, and peed outside. Yes, it was freezing on the tooch, thanks for asking. But of course I was prepared for a moment like this - I had toilet paper with me, I am an ol' Girl Guide you know. It was all good. Now being the daughter of my mom, I also had hand-sanitizer with me. So looking objectively at this, it was just like going to a public washroom, minus the toliet, indoor plumbing, door, walls, and out-fashioned mirror. Had I had that mirror I also would have been able to watch myself twitch and shake from the massive amount of caffine I had ingested. I could not not keep still, and falling asleep was a long, exhaustive process.
So the conclusion of the matter is this: school is cool, but it doesn't teach you the severe repercussions of going from no coffee intake to pounding back 3 large cups of it!