For years now, I have limited myself to a single cup of coffee at breakfast and no more for the rest of the day. On rare occasions, I drink a cup of hot tea, maybe with Chinese food or a dessert or something. But on that cruise, I bent the rules a little. Coffee in the morning, sometimes a second cup, then a cup of Earl Gray in the afternoon(my ancestors were British) and coffee again with dessert in the evening.

As soon as I got off the ship I reverted to the one-cup-a-day practice. The result was a slight headache beginning at tea time, then a droopy, headache-all-over, lifeless, condition until I dragged off to bed and collapsed. The pattern repeated itself for about four days and I am now almost back to normal.

If I get hooked on caffine that easily, I shiver to think what would happen if I took up alcohol.
Howard