Sometimes you need a thoughtful friend to tell you what you really need to hear. In my case, my wife had to inform me that coffee breath is a lot worse for the people around me than I would have imagined on my own.
Up until recently, I have assumed that coffee breath just smells like coffee — everybody likes the smell of coffee right?
In reality, coffee breath doesn’t “just smell like coffee.” It’s actually another variation of bad breath. Of course, there are worse kinds of bad breath out there, such as that which results from not brushing for a week, all the while maintaining a steady diet of pickled eggs and cottage cheese.
Even after brushing, coffee breath tends to be unpleasant, in close quarters especially. Coffee breath is even detectable from across a desk, at an interview for example.
It turns out that coffee breath can be a turn-off for interviewers, which is surprising to me — Wouldn’t this indicate that I’m ready to get to work?
If you go on coffee shop date, you should definitely bring along some after-coffee gum. In case you get the chance to make out at the end of the date, there’s no guarantee that both of your bad coffee breaths will be compatible.
I have my mints ready!