My Coffee Almost Cost Me $10,000!

17 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief narrative, the speaker recounts a visit to a Long Island estate where a gracious host offers coffee. The speaker places the coffee cup on a coffee table, only to be sharply rebuked because the table is a La Verne piece valued at thousands of dollars. The host emphasizes that the table is treated as a work of art rather than a functional surface. The speaker apologizes, removes the cup, and continues the tour of the home’s antiques, reflecting on how high‑value furniture is perceived more for its aesthetic and monetary worth than its practicality.

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So I walk into a home in a Long Island estate, a lot of beautiful things everywhere. Before we get started, the woman was very welcoming and she gave me a cup of coffee. I put the coffee on the table and all of a sudden the woman flips out that I'm not allowed to put anything on the coffee table. She tells me it's a La Verne coffee table, it's worth thousands of dollars, and I'm not allowed to use it. I'm thinking, it's a coffee table. But realistically, with the market today, people want to have a table as more of a piece of art. It's not necessarily practical, but it looks really cool. So of course I was very nice, apologized, We did not put the cup on the coffee table, and we went on to see the rest of the antiques.