Life's Unexplained Mysteries

12 May 2006, 09:24

#1: Why cafe’s charge extra for soy and decaf options. Soy milk and decaf coffee are exactly the same price as cows milk and regular coffee and quite popular options… For a decaf (breastfeeding, ahem) soy latte lover, ‘tis v. frustrating.

#2: Why a baby can self-settle herself at 8pm and sleep 9-10 hours without waking up (or managing to get back to sleep if she does wake up) and yet has to be dragged and coaxed into having a nap during the day, fighting it at every turn, and then only managing to nap for 45 minutes at the MOST. You can set the friggin’ clock by her… I just don’t get it.

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1. “sleep 9-10 hours without waking up”!!!
   
   oh how I dream of this, still, and you’re worried about a nap!
   — bogue    May 13, 11:34 PM    #
2. Point taken and secured very humbly between legs. I do consider myself very lucky indeed, it is simply a conundrum about the mysteries of baby sleep.
   — Kinki    May 14, 09:39 AM    #
3. I might be able to help explain #1. If it isn’t pure capitalist greed then price of decaf is most likely a cost vs. quality issue. Extracting the caffeine from coffee beans costs money, and the extra expense is passed on to the consumer. However, many coffee makers try to offset the extra cost of decaffeination by using lower quality beans, but that often results in decaf that tastes like gorilla sweat (don’t ask how I know this). So if you want really good decaf it costs more.
   — Jason    May 19, 07:13 AM    #