Haiku 2023–211

looking for trouble

eating some coffee ice cream

after 8 p.m.

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We recently took an overnight trip out of town and stopped by a famous ice cream shop in the area we are traveling through. Perusing through the many flavors, I couldn’t decide which experience to have, but kept coming back to the “Coffee, Sugar, and Cream” flavor. It’s a bad enough idea for me to be eating dairy right before what’s normally my bedtime, but eating one that had caffeine to boot? 2:00 is a hard cutoff for me to drink caffeine, period. I was certainly tempting fate.

The ice cream ended up being quite fantastic and I only experienced a small amount of the issues that keep me away from late night ice cream. The caffeine? I was so tired when I ended up at my destination that I fell asleep right away and stayed asleep most of the night. In the end, I found just a little bit of trouble, but it was certainly worth it.