Woman Describes Morning Routine Of Drinking Coffee In Her Garden With Her Husband, Twitter Loses It

To paraphrase War Games, Twitter is a strange place. The only winning move is not to tweet.

The latest saga to demonstrate the perils of tweeting occurred over the past weekend. Friday afternoon, Twitter user @lilplantmami seemingly set the website ablaze after unleashing a tweet so fiery and so controversial that it racked up an astonishing 13,000 quote-tweets as people dissected it for all of its incendiary content.

Here is the offending tweet:

@lilplantmami's appreciation for her husband, garden and coffee may seem extremely innocuous and even wholesome, yet in perhaps the most egregious example of Twitter overreaction yet, her post sent some on the site into a discourse spiral.

In the replies to the husband/garden/coffee tweet, several posters appeared to take it as a boast and voiced complaints that the tweet did not align with their specific experiences. Others attempted to do a class-based critique, arguing that the couple's ability to drink coffee in the morning in a garden suggested they lived a villainously bourgeois lifestyle.

Some also attempted to rain on her parade by noting that she and her husband had only been married a few months, so soon their conversation well will run dry and they'll become unhappy.

While these negative responses were largely outnumbered by statements of general support (albeit with a tinge of jealousy), they were amplified by people gobsmacked that a not-insignificant amount of Twitter grumps were able to take issue with a woman feeling grateful for being able to chat with her husband in the morning in their garden.

When the complaints spread, the tweet became a catalyst for people to discuss the perils of posting, as people commented on the deranged character of Twitter.

The "Great Garden Coffee Incident of 2022" has largely died down, and @lilplantmami appears to have taken the bizarre controversy in stride, changing her handle to reflect that she is the "garden coffee lady." Still, the saga proves once again that the only way to win at Twitter is to never tweet.