Vness Rising
3 min readFeb 26, 2021

New York for Beginners #002 — Never Say THIS to a New Yorker!

1 — Haven’t you had enough coffee?

Photo by Ilse Orsel on Unsplash

New Yorkers are to coffee what Brits are to tea, what the French are to vin what the Irish are to whisky and the Japanese Sake, Russians vodka, you get the picture.

It’s not unusual to see an eight year old go to Starbucks and order an oatmeal Frappuchino with whipped cream. Even dogs can get a coffee. Having coffee is probably the only…

Vness Rising

Published author, playwright, editor, journalist. I write on race, culture, relationships with some flash fiction thrown in.