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donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote2007-12-22 09:18 pm
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Schrödinger’s Coffee

Title: Schrödinger’s Coffee
Pairing/Warning/Rating:
none, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Jack and Tosh discuss coffee
Author's Note: Learn about Schrödinger's cat here.  Thanks to [profile] smithy161 for fixing the quantum nature of Jack's conundrum.


“Jack?  You’re staring at the coffee machine.  Are you okay?”

“I don’t know who made the coffee this morning, Tosh.”

“Oh, and that’s a problem?”

“Gwen makes dreadful coffee.  And Owen’s... Owen’s coffee is criminal.  I want Ianto’s coffee.”

“Well, maybe Ianto made it.”

“But until I drink it I won’t know for certain.”

“And you’re not trying it... why?”

“Schrödinger’s Coffee.”

“Sorry, what?”

"Well, it's both fantastic coffee and horrific coffee-like crap until I try it.  And I don't want risk drinking coffee-like crap.”

“I wouldn’t have guessed you were a student of quantum theory.”

“Not quantum theory, just coffee.”
  

[identity profile] travels-in-time.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I didn't say drabble! The very idea of being that constrained makes me run screaming. Those of you who can do them have my admiration.

As for that icon...think of it as a challenge. :D

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
what's weird is, for me, the idea of a ficlet being any random length makes me hyperventilate. I need the constraint of the 100 word box