12 Signs of an Energy Drink Addict
You know you’re addicted to energy drinks when:
- You dream about owning a glass door mini-fridge, devoted solely to your energy drinks.
- You can grab a can from your fridge, open it, and be half way through it before you realize you’re even drinking it.
- Energyfiend.com is your homepage.
- You have an eagle eye for spotting caffeine content of an energy drink in 5 seconds flat.
- Your state has cheated you out of over $10 by charging bottle deposit fees for drinks that no store will accept returns on.
- All you want is a drink to sip because you’re bored or thirsty, and you choose an energy drink.
- You’re arguing with yourself about how much sleep you need for the next day, and you use energy drinks as a bargaining tool to convince yourself that you can make it the next day on less sleep.
- You consider mixing one in with your milk and cereal.
- You treat new energy drinks like a fine wine, first smelling the drink before you sip a little to wash around your mouth.
- You can no longer try a new energy drink in your home town, because you’ve tried them all.
- You drive outside of your home town in search of new energy drinks.
- You put your unfinished cans in the fridge, and fall in love with yourself the next morning for doing so.
Now it’s your turn! Submit your additions to this list in the comments section!
Were any of these true for you?
Written by Dusty Smith
35 Comments
If even the “hardcore” energy drinks don’t effect you.
Ah, all of these have been true for me at one time except the mini fridge… which makes me think about going and buying one now.
When you have a collection of over 700 different caffeinated goodies, and when you exploit your friends as scouts for new additions; and when during their scouting they come to you excited because they found something, only to realize that you found it yourself two weeks ago.
I’m guilty of…
4, 6, 7, 9, 10 (for the most part), and 12 (if I actually have unfinished cans). Who doesn’t sniff an energy drink the first time they have one, though?
Nice additions everyone 
Tim, we’re very much alike! That last part of your post is like a weekly occurrence for me lol
i laugh like a hyena with no side effects! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12.
not 1 simply because i spend so much money on energy drinks that i can’t afford one.
not 3, but it’s the third icon in the bookmarks bar on firefox.
i’m considering mixing it with my cereal now though…
13. When the cashiers at the local big lots tell you what new additions they have to their energy drink line-up as soon as you walk in.
You head up Cocaine “shipments” for your friends, and they affectionately refer to you as their “dealer.” And yes, every mother in the Northern hemisphere gives you dirty looks as you walk around, oblivious. In fact, mothers of your friends begin to “intervene.” For you AND their children. : ) You have a reputation for being a bad influence when it comes to good drink choices, and you regularly hear that you’re going to die young. And you regularly respond that you’ll die happy then.
All my justification on the matter lies in I Timothy 4:4-5, haha.
(sorry but vs. 3 is the context)
1,4,7,9(but with all energy drinks),10,11,12. Mixing one with cereal and milk doesn’t sound like a bad idea though lol
All of you, this is wonderful to see you matching these points. I made this list pretty much based solely on my personal signs of addiction, so now I don’t feel so alone!
Gilly, that’s a good one about the health warnings! I’m constantly being told that I’m going to have a heart attack by 30.
Instead, though, I use those opportunities to educate the ill-informed person about the reality of energy drinks. It’s usually a lecture they aren’t ready for, and don’t really want (which makes it more enjoyable on my end)
I know! haha I wrote a research paper on energy drinks and I’m constantly having to go back to that to prove to people who warn me against energy drinks that they’re really not bad- moderation and awareness keep you healthy!
OK, but question: how many of you hear that energy drinks are worse for you than alcohol? And what are your thoughts? I’m hearing that more and more…
I hear the energy drinks are worse than alcohol argument more and more. Still not a very prevalent argument but it’s getting there. I still want to know why people scoff at me when I inform them that energy drinks have vitamins. Also, everyone says energy drinks will adversely affect my health, but when some kind of bad ass cold went through my work I was the only one who didn’t get it..
9 teenagers die per day in an alcohol-related death.
What more is there to be said?
Nobody’s ever spent a night drinking Amp and then gone home and beat his wife. ‘Nuff said.
And I’ve never heard of cops checking Blood Caffeine Content after an accident before.
In complete agreement. People overblow things like this so often without thinking about what they’re implying! That it’s worse than alcohol, that it’s a gateway drug, that it’s just poisoning your body… I mean 300-400mg of caffeine a day is healthy for most people; caffeine withdrawals can very commonly be overcome in 1 to 5 days. Alcohol and drugs are way more addicting than that! I could go on and on…
Dusty, if these are based on you, then did you ever give in and try pouring an energy drink in your cereal? lol it would probably be good
Evan, I’ve considered it many times, but never done it. If a dreaded morning comes along and a drink is standing bye, I’ll probably do it.
You buy energy drinks in bulk and don’t know why the cashier/friends/family/strangers that see you with them look at you with great concern in their eyes.