OK, it’s time for Part II of this series. If you missed Part I, check it out below! We now move on to the Eggnog-Chai Latte, which I got with full sweetness. I used to love eggnog when I was a kid, but after I turned 30, buying eggnog just became a thinly veiled excuse to bust out the Bacardi and get drunk off my ass. I probably haven’t had eggnog mixed with anything other than rum for several years, but today I had it with a Chai tea latte, and it was again delicious. Very sweet, but somehow eggnog is sufficiently rich that it can handle the extra sugar. The Chai and eggnog indeed pair well together. Are they as good as the Chai-and-pumpkin mix? Perhaps not, but the Eggnog-Chai latte definitely makes for a great once-a-year beverage during the holidays.
But wait! I’m supposed to dole out more dating advice to that guy from the café. OK, here it goes, and this one is big.
Millennials are great, but one thing some of them lack is patience and it’s easy to see why: today people can binge-watch their favourite show in a single day, look up just about anything with a few mouse-clicks, and talk to their friends anywhere they want with their cell phones.
Back when I was growing up, you couldn’t do any of that stuff. We had to tune in every Monday night at 8 pm just to watch MacGyver and at the end of each season there’d always be some episode where MacGyver was going to crash into a truck or something and we’d be watching, going, “I sure hope MacGyver doesn’t die.” Then the screen would freeze and the narrator would say, “Will MacGyver survive? Tune in September of 1987 to find out!”
We’d spend the next six months anxiously waiting just to learn whether MacGyver died. (Spoiler alert: he didn’t.)
Was it frustrating? You bet. But it built character and I believe it imbued my generation with a patience that would ultimately come in handy when we entered adulthood. Also back when I was young, online dating didn’t even exist and so again more patience was required. If you wanted to meet a woman at a bar, you had to do some stupid stuff like “accidentally” bump into her on the way to the washroom and then she’d be like, “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU JUST SPILLED MY DRINK ALL OVER ME!”
Then you’d have to apologize and offer to pay for her dry cleaning, and nine times out of ten you’d just end up becoming a liaison between her and her dry cleaner for the next six to eight months. But that one time out of ten, she’d start having romantic feelings for you. She’d be looking in the mirror and she’d say to herself: “That guy who brings me my dry cleaning every Tuesday morning evokes strange atavistic longings deep within my innermost being!” (I assume women say stuff like that to themselves in the mirror, but if not, my bad!) At that point you’d be in a relationship (I assume).
It was a different time, for sure, but the point is: you needed to be patient back then, and you really needed to understand the inner-workings of the whole dry cleaning process. Probably none of this stuff would work today, but the general principle of being patient without getting discouraged still applies, and it applies to many things beyond just online dating. Good luck, gentle reader!
Oh wait, I have to give my verdict and score for the Eggnog-Chai Tea Latte, right?
Verdict: Pretty good, but definitely not an "every day” drink. Maybe something you can have once or twice during the holidays.
Score: 5 Stars and 3 Bucks out of 10.
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