I thought this was quite a thoughtful prompt. Profiling people’s coffee preferences based on their appearances. I think it’s something fun to do, especially for someone like me who does that infamous people-lyzing thing. But, instead, or in addition to guessing people’s lives based on the expressions on their faces and outlook, I take it a step further and try to guess their coffee preferences.
But in relation to myself, I think people would be mostly wrong about me. In the first place, I’ve never been to any good cafés in my location but I remember once when I went to a mall and they were trying something new. A kind of breakfast joint. So they served steaming, spicy noodles, hot chocolate, fresh loaves of bread and of course, coffee. But I didn’t know that, at least not at the time. Frankly, I had no intention of trying anything. I just wanted to observe and power my phone which was flat. But I knew I’d come back if what I observed was pleasant.
So, this lady walks in with smiles on her face. She has this dress on that I thought she was extremely courageous for trying. It was so colourful, that even with my photochromic lenses, I could see the whole burst of colours. She was smiling so brightly and was there a little skip in her steps too? I tried not to stare but her energy was kind of magnetic, so I kept glancing at her every ten seconds. So, I watched till she got her order. Sandwich and what do you know? A ristretto. Or at least I thought it was, cause it looked dark and had this very intense aroma that let me know it was quite strong. Yeah, she sat at the table in front so I was able to sneak a peek.
I don’t know why but I looked at her a little differently when I saw her coffee order. It’s like she transformed before my eyes. I didn’t want to start psychoanalyzing her but I knew that beyond all those colourful smiles and even more colourful clothes, she probably had an extremely tough interior. I’ve not gone back there, mainly because I travelled back to my state barely a week later. But I do hope to go there again.
Moving back to myself, I think people’s profiling of me based on my appearance would be quite deceptive. And that’s because, on a very good day, I dress in all black. I’m not emo in any way. Black is just my favourite colour and I think it’s really pretty. So my favourite outfits or the outfits that you can be sure I’m in a good mood because I’m wearing them is a black-themed outfit. Or at the most, my favourite colour combinations, which is no surprise, are white and black.
But that’s not the only thing that could make you profile me and probably assume my coffee preference. It’s the way I look. I live in an area where smiling too much is practically inviting the wolves to dine. Or at least stop you for some kind of chat which irks me a whole deal. So, the best way to fend off these wolves is to keep a straight face, bordering on a frown. But for some reason, even when I leave the neighbourhood, I don’t term myself as much of a smiler. So, it’ll be quite easy for anyone to say. Black girl. Black outfit. Black heart. Black coffee.
But okay, Wrong! Just like that lady I profiled and thought she’d be a latte, double whipped cream kind of girl and she drank her espresso with a smile still pasted on her face as she downed the steaming cup, I think people’s assumption of my coffee preference because of my appearance would be deceptive as well. Because I’m not the black coffee or espresso type. I love hot cocoa a lot, so mocha speaks a lot to me. But if I wanted to be a daring, a macchiato at best.
Most times, when people get over that unapproachable look I have, they’re usually surprised at how really smiley I am. So, I think the same applies to my coffee preference. An espresso till I start talking and then when I do, it becomes a latte. I do think it’s kind of creative, however, to profile people and guess their coffee preferences based on their appearance. And if a café did that for their new customers, it could be nice. That’s if, said customers were pretty easygoing and didn’t take offence at the assumptions.
So yeah, that’s about it. Till I’m proven otherwise, I think my appearance would be quite deceptive. I would really love that profiling though.😁☕