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I Do Love My Coffee, But Not Much Else These Days

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 I'm hanging out at Price Chopper in the........I'm not sure what this area is called?? Break room?  There are several employees here eating their lunch. But I also know this area is open for customers to buy some pre-made food (such as a turkey bacon wrap which I just finished eating) and settle in to eat.   Anyway, I'm at a table with my food wrappers beside me and my iced coffee in hand, Starbucks just behind me. We've had a boil water notice in effect since Monday, due to a tragic house fire in town that resulted in the death of the elder gentleman that lived there. The need for so much water to put the fire out drained water resources to the point that until the town can verify that there isn't an overabundance of bacteria etc in the water, we need to boil all drinking water. Including the water we use to refill the ice cube trays. Sigh. But on that day, the entire time the siren was blaring and the fire trucks from our town and several surrounding towns were f...