Coffee

I’ve been visiting my grandparents in Arkansas for the last 4 days.
My Grandfather is 74. He says he’s been drinking coffee for the last 65 years. That’s 47,450 cups of coffee, at an average of two 8 oz. cups a day. That’s about 370 gallons, if I figured it right. That’s a lot of coffee.
He takes 2 teaspoons of sugar in every cup. That’s 94,900 teaspoons, or 1,977 measuring cups, which works out to about 175 ¾ pounds. That’s a lot of sugar. Granted, the last 20 years he’s been using artificial sweetener.
We were just finishing up our chili and cornbread when we got on the subject. It struck me that Grandpa has lived a long time, and he’s always had his coffee. At first it seemed a silly question, but then we really got into answering it. Grandma reached for a pencil and pad of paper. When our heads started to spin, Grandpa dug around in the drawer for the calculator.
A day doesn’t feel like so much, but they add up before you know it. I’m at 1,825 cups of coffee. (But I don’t take sugar).