Our Daily Wit

        Give us this day our daily wit.

In a morning last winter the author awoke in a church.  The church was participating in a volunteer program “Code Blue” for homeless individuals, such as this author.  Having slept on an air mattress in a large room with his fellow wayward souls, the author needed a little caffeine pep to awaken and venture into the cold.

The kind and generous volunteers had coffee already prepared for their guests.  The coffee prepared was a single urn of coffee.  On the urn was masking tape with the marking of “Decaf.”
 

Curious, the author asked a volunteer, “Is decaf all we have?”

    

The volunteer looked at the label then looked back at the author and said, “Ohh. . . no.  The coffee in the urn is caffeinated coffee - it’s identifying as decaf!”