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I have always been a coffee drinker...well, there were a couple of years where, for whatever reason,  I gave up coffee everyday, but still would enjoy a cappuccino in the afternoon, or after a really good meal.  I drank my drip coffee every morning and all through the day, I made my run through the drive thru every morning.  My car didn't know where to go unless it went to a drive thru first!  My first part time job was in a local coffee shop, it was a great job.  I worked there for many years...and...I drank a lot of coffee!  Even when I wasn't working in the coffee shop, I was usually hanging out in one.

When I first started travelling for business many years ago, my first business trip was to the US for a training session.  The first day of training, we, of course, start off with filling up our coffee mugs and grabbing a pastry.  In my opinion, the coffee just didn't cut it.  Very weak with little flavour.  That was it, from there, I made the coffee everyday for that training!  They were training me on a new medical laboratory computer system, but I was determined to train them on how to make coffee!

In those days, I also did a lot of driving around Ontario, up and down the 401, from Ottawa to Windsor, and I knew where each stop had a coffee place (you know who I mean!).

I even remember when I was very young, perhaps 12 or so, I was waiting for my Mom to finish work at a local restaurant and someone needed a refill on their coffee, so there I was, just grabbed the pot and started filling everyones cup. In fact, I have been known to do this a few times through the years, been in a restaurant and wanted a refill and the wait staff run off their feet, so have grabbed the coffee pot and filled my cup and a few others as well.

When I look back on this and find myself in this coffee business, I have to laugh, because I didn't look for a coffee business specifically, but it showed up.  It is just funny how perhaps it was there the whole time!
I don't know what it is but I do enjoy giving people a really good cup of coffee!