I think it’s because the aroma of coffee is so important to its flavor.

My wife prefers flavored coffees and I shy away from them.

I thought I’d gotten them mixed or there was residue in my coffee maker because my coffee kept tasting sweet and I don’t add sugar or use sweeteners at all.

Across the room was a candle in a jar, lid off, unlit, hazelnut coffee scented.

ACROSS THE ROOM it was enough to make me think my coffee was actually sweet. So yeah, it’s all about the smell.

You are correct!

That’s all fair. All of my shit is a me problem, and I try to not judge. I’m in a corporate job and all the terrible grammar and spelling is just rampant there. So it’s not like I can expect it everywhere online.

It isn’t a hard and fast rule, just an observation. For some, it is just an interjection, and that’s undeniable.

One weird thing for me is that I came online in the brief era between when simple smiles, the old colon parenthesis, were a thing but lol wasn’t yet. Habits already defined, I guess.

That was inevitable. Take an up-whateverwecallitnow.

My old person trait is that I’m unreasonably annoyed by people who don’t write in full, correct, complete sentences, punctuation and grammar included.

Something interesting I’ve found is that people use ‘lol’ to show disinterest or mock the person they’re replying to, not to show amusement. And that’s not the kind of person I really want to engage with.