iCoffee

And hey, they can be pretty useful, too!

Case in point: Back in my days as a cub reporter for a big city newspaper, I would often be sent on coffee runs to the cafe down the street. It would start with my editor asking me if, when I next went out to get coffee (I was the most reliable coffee drinker in the newsroom), I would pick one up for him, too. Seeing me head out the door, my coworkers would whisper to each other, “Sarah’s going for coffee!” and suddenly fistfulls of dollar bills would be thrust at me, along with complicated orders. And not wanting to piss off my superiors, I’d painstakingly writing down their orders on a smudged post-it and maybe get half of their orders right. And since they were all taking advantage of me anyway, I only really cared that my editor’s order was spot on.

I really could have used an iPhone back then ”and not just so I could play Tetris while waiting for a late interview subject to show up, or to get directions when I was lost deep in the South Bay of Northern California, or to call for a towtruck when my adorable but completely unreliable VW convertible broke down on the freeway for the third time in a month. But I really could have used an iPhone, as well as the new application Coffee Order from ExecTones (www.exectones.com) to keep my coffee orders straight, as well.