My grandfather did the same thing! I don't drink coffee, but i always thought it was strange to drink it from a saucer. He also said that it cooled it off, but he would pour it into the sauce and still blow on it and then drink. It is one of the things i can still remember so clearly as if it were yesterday (my grandfather, Thomas Emanuel Miller, has been dead for 24 1/2 years now). Wow, thanks for the stories about the families of TNCAMPBELL - it really is interesting and helps me to feel a link even tho i am way out here in snowy Montana! Donna