This is a guest post by Elliott Fienberg

How many times have you got on the subway and noticed coffee stains on the ground, or even worse on the seats?

I look at the mess people have made and wonder how fellow commuters can be so dumb. Other times I've seen people rest their coffee cups right on the seats and then I mutter to myself about how the apocalypse is near. I've always vowed never to be one of these idiots.

On a separate note, I, like many other people have trouble waking up in the morning. And when you're running late, there's no time to sit at the table and drink a nice hot cup like that guy in the Folgers commercials.

A few weeks ago during my morning routine, I got the genius idea to make coffee and take it in a paper cup for my commute. But the first time I tried was also my last because I figured out first hand why there's so many coffee stains on the subways.

If you've ever been on the Bloor line you know that any given time, the trains are always crowded. So you can imagine that in the morning I am basically Kramer going to work on Wall Street.

So everything was fine until I had to get out. As I made my way to the doors, I tried to pass some jerk wearing a backpack when another man crossed my path. The cup dropped like a fumbled pass in the Grey Cup as I yelled, 'nooooo'.

As the viscous Colombian gold flowed on the floor, it reached some poor bloke's pant legs. As it soaked around his ankles, my self-esteem plummeted by the nanosecond. I kept trying to say I'm sorry and I even added some more apologies from outside the train before it took off again. Hey, a Canadian can never apologize enough, right?

So I learned a good lesson that morning: if you want to wake up twenty minutes earlier, just bring a cup of coffee on a crowded subway one morning. Forget using life's ambitions, images of success, or the pressures of supporting a family to get you out of bed; the terror of repeatedly seeing someone whom you spilled coffee on will rip you from the beneath the warm covers any day of the week.

Elliott Fienberg writes music and blogs under the guise of Mr. Tunes. Check out his site or download to his latest release, "Nagano Car Rental".