Just saw where Mark Cuban is telling people

[OldBaldy1701E]

113. Okay, story time.

When I lived in Charlotte, NC, I went into a Radio Shack (dating myself here) to get something. I am an old Shack devotee and have been frequenting the chain for decades. As I waited, three different people came up wanting to know where things were. I told them. The manager, who was at the register, saw me and asked if I wanted to talk about a job. Two days later, I went in to talk to her about it. She liked me and hired me. One thing that she mentioned as we were talking was that they were all 'big coffee drinkers', as well as mentioning that she had already finished one. I replied that I was as well and also had one today. After we had finished talking and were getting up to exit the office, she grabs her mug and says, "Welp, time for number two!".

I replied, "OH! You were talking about 'cups'."

She looked at me curiously. "Yeah," she said. Then, after a moment, she said, "What were you talking about?"

"Pots." I replied. She looked a bit incredulously at me.

"You drank a whole pot of coffee already today?"

I shrugged. "Well," I said, "It is summer." (Too hot to drink coffee all day.)

I did not last very long at the store because the chain was being run into the ground by corporate interests who had no understanding of how demand for electronics works as well as the fact that a parts store is just not going to give you a department store vibe, even if your greed demands it. Anyway, it was funny because they all thought they were coffee-holics until they met me.

(Full Disclosure: I cannot drink regular coffee anymore. My system does not like caffeine anymore. It messes with my stomach. At one point, I was downing two or three pots of coffee all morning, then around a two liter of Coke the rest of the day. I suppose that might have had something to do with it. LOL.)

I have decaf and usually only four cups or so in the mornings these days.