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    >   CP wrote --   
      
    > > I used those cones for YEARS to make all my coffees.   
      
    >   I got my first one in the early '80s I found at a deli I delivered   
    > produce to.   
    >   That one was great since no filter was needed.  It had a little screw in   
    > cup on the bottom the coffee went through, so the funnel held only water.   
    >   I managed to break that somehow (after years of use) and had to go with   
    > the filter one.   
      
   Ooh, that one sounds interesting; do you recall anything about it? brand, name,   
   etc?   
      
   nah, nm, I like my bodums!  Gt 2 2-cup ones & a 1-cup one, so I can brew 5 mugs   
   at a time, of 3 different types (decaf, flavors)   
      
   Saturday mornings I make enough for my 3/4 pint mug, & put a splash of   
   liqueur(flavoured Baileys) into it, to make it special. (Lazy Man's Irish   
   Coffee)   
      
   I can make it with actual whiskey should I ever want to; or make my own   
   custom(different every time) Monte Christo.   
      
   Usually, I don't add that extra 'spice' to my coffees, as I like coffee itself   
   just fine.   
      
   Discovered that at the ripe old age of 17, in '84, at a cafe in a tiny(2500)   
   Northern Ontario town I'd wound up in while hitchhiking.  I was having my usual   
   breakfast & the coffee was so GOOD! Ezxtra rich & flavorful; I asked the   
   waitress if they'd changed brands; she said everything was same as lat I was   
   in. I took a second cup(free refills years) & discovered, when I went to opur   
   sugar into my teaspoon, that the spoon was dry (I'd not used it -- the coffee   
   tasted wondrously better because I was tasting the unflavoured coffee itself;   
   stopped putting sugar in that day, until after 50 whem my stomach required a   
   half tsp.   
      
   Always needed a half cream, though; still do, unless I'm having a mocha, then   
   just as it is.   
      
   I sure do miss when you'd go in & order a coffee (only, not part of a meal) &   
   they gave you a thermosful on the table so you could get 4 refils or so without   
   the waitress' attention needed. & then pay a 50 cent tab on your way out (75c   
   or $1 including tax & tip, of course)   
      
   Now you ghotta pay $2.50 as soon as you go in, before sitting, & they'll bring   
   you a tiny mug (almost demi-tasse, you'd think) 2/3 full of coffee, & you only   
   get 1 refill, & only if you ordered a meal, & you spend so much time flagging a   
   server, you give up & just go. . .   
      
   I remember, in '89, I went to this one cafe every morning before work, for the   
   2 eggs, 2 meat 2 toast, & hash browns meal for $2.50 (unlimited refills   
   included); they hired a new waitress at one point, as they were getting too   
   busy for an aging couple to do it all. I couldn't get her eye for nothin', to   
   get a refil after I'd finised my meal & coffee.  Finally I got up & got the pot   
   myself, filling a few others on my way to & from my table.  She got   
   snarky(superior-like she was god of the coffee rations) with me over it.   
      
   Next day the owner asked what Io thought of her; I gave my honest appraisal, &   
   the reasons why, & I never saw her again.  He wasn't putting up with & paying   
   someone who wasn't attentive to his regulars.   
      
   Normally, I'd come in the door in the morning, at my usual time, & one of   
   them'd sdee me, & place a coffee &8 the local; big daily paper ast table 7, at   
   my usyal; seat.  I'd sit, enjoy the coffeee & news, & nobody said anything to   
   me besides the initial greetyings until my mug was dry, then they refilled it   
   and asked "bacon or sausage today?" as that was my only varying point for my   
   usual. (soft bacon, poached eggs special, don't cut the toast"   
      
   Then I was left to my own devices, to eat & to finish the crossword whle   
   drinking several cups of coffee.  I had it pretty well timed to be able to walk   
   to work at the fast food restaurant & arrive almost exactly 30 minutes early,   
   nicely fed & relaxed. If things were relaxed there, I'd grab another coffee &   
   catch up on the day's events from front & kitchen staff.  All knew I was   
   available for any position' help, if needed at any time, even before my   
   starting time.   
      
   Life was good, even at $5/hour (minwage in '89 here); I had a foreman from the   
   paper mill across the street offer me a job starting at $16 hour the next   
   morningh, if I wanted it; I asked "Is it union?"; he said of course, & I said   
   no thanks, flabbergastihngthe poor guy, as I preferred 12-hour shifts 6   
   days/week to get paid lerss than 7.5-hour shifts 5 days & one 7.5-hour   
   overtime($32/hour) a month.   
      
   I was content & not ready to rock that boat.   
      
   Simple times; good times.   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
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