A thing that amuses me

[umadoshi]

It's really pretty funny to tell people who I know are coffee drinkers (this mostly means Casual Job co-worders, as they're just about the only people I've been seeing in person in a month or so) that I've started taking a caffeine pill some days. Because nearly everyone I've mentioned this to has either blinked and been clearly taken a bit aback

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[sabotabby]

Huh, I'm the opposite. I don't really get any energy from anything other than hot coffee or tea. I know in theory other substances contain caffeine, but they don't seem to work that well.

[umadoshi]

I'd just sort of assumed that caffeine itself had no real effect on me, since I usually drink 3-4 cups of tea a day and eat chocolate, but then I had one of those caffeine-infused chocolate bars and it kicked in. Quite surprising. But I figure I eat enough chocolate/other sugar that $3 chocolate bars were not the way to go if I wanted caffeine. ^^;

[flemmings]

I too find coffee doesn't provide an energy jolt, even if it will keep me awake if drunk too late in the evening. Caffeine has to be cold to have any effect; hence diet Pepsi and its host of Other Stuff Best Avoided.

[umadoshi]

It's really interesting how many people seem to find caffeine's effects depend on temperature!