Elder Berry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I like the smell of coffee. Some Mormons I know > hate it, others like it.
My maternal grandparents, though nominally mormon, were never very active, and always "jack" mormons. It used to drive my TBM mother crazy when they'd come visit, and grandma would start a pot of coffee in the morning (she brought her own percolator, of course). Mom would whisper to me and my siblings, "Oh, I hate that smell!"
After my grandfather died, and grandma moved in with one of mom's sisters in Alpine, they forbade her the morning coffee she'd loved for 60 or 70 years. And they started hauling her to church every Sunday -- conditions of her living with them. It was sad.
Your poor grandmother. My mother's mother was able to have her coffee her whole life despite her two daughters pestering her about drinking it. I feel for her. What a "sin" to take it from her as her life is closing.
My grandpa drank his coffee and had his burned toast every day until the day he died. My grandmother confided she missed the burned toast, but my aunts let her smell coffee every morning - she never liked the taste, but loved the smell. Evidently, when she went into her nursing home, she started drinking the stuff, simply because she had read about the studies that it would help her asthma, senility, and heart (something my granddad had said all my growing up, but there weren't the studies back then, that I know of).
I too am sorry that your grandma had to give up a healthy vice. It just isn't fair that Mormons don't truly believe their 11th article of faith, and allow others their rights to worship who, what, where or when they want (even if it isn't worshiping, but enjoying a cup of coffee).
But, then again, my TBM SnIL can't stand the smell of my fresh coffee. The smell of my 'liquid medication' - wine is also a deterrent (He leaves as soon as it's poured, even if I try to mix it with other liquids). He also really doesn't like it when I've got this site and other "anti" sites open on my computer!
If it's the sisternaries, again, I'd have the computer on to the church's web site, and open to something that they would be surprised at seeing on official church sites!
But then, if you are looking for something to send (vs scent), just an easy letter to the bishop for a DO NOT CONTACT might do the trick. But if the wifey is trying to get you pulled back, it may give some dumb pric the idea that you need MORE contact!
Oh, if sugar is truly addictive, and most people are addicted, then it would seem to me that the opposite odor could easily repel people. Something bitter? Broccoli? Cooked Cabbage? FART (yes, you can buy fart scent, but I don't know where), something that you despise!
A couple of Hispanic sister missionaries used to ask me to go with them when they gave discussions to single males. One of them would stare at me the whole time we sat there. She gave me wet dreams. Weird stuff.
said it already. Coffee, yep. I was raised liking the smell of coffee. My dad's parents house always smelled like coffee and my dad drank coffee all my life, though we didn't have a coffee maker.
You can buy (at Bed Bath and Beyond) little fake pies to put in your oven, that smell exactly like the real thing. Why make your house smell nasty? I refuse to allow the Mormons to stink up my house.
Put in the pie, turn on your oven, and set the timer for 12 minutes. Comment on the delicious pie you are baking, and make sure they know that it is not for them. They are not important enough. Besides, you are too busy to really visit much, and you are on your way to take the pie to some REAL friends. When the buzzer goes off--zzzzzt! visit over!
I don't like the taste of coffee, but I sure like the smell. I've kept a Mr Coffee and some Folger's for my nevermo folks for years.
Now, Mom's dead and Pop has mostly gone off coffee after being hospitalized with a nasty case of bronchitis. He still drinks it at coffee and rolls after Mass on Sundays, but that's it. Recently, he mentioned he's not drinking ice tea anymore.
I asked him if he was going to be a Mormon. He laughed.
saved by the board Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I use cigarette smoke with fresh-brewed > coffee...keeps mormons AND catholics away. ************************************************************** But people looking for the AA meeting'll follow their noses right to it!