Dear Stranger,

I see you almost every day when I visit your café for a coffee. I don’t know your name like some of the other staff as you’re always at the back, busily working away; head down, focused, and meticulous. Roasting and weighing beans; your work is an essential part of a well-oiled machine. Without you, the machine would begin to fall apart, and that would be chaos.

What I’m trying to say is that you are an incredibly important part of my day. Without you, I simply wouldn’t get that ten minutes of caffeinated bliss that I yearn for the very first moment I wake up.

So to you I say thank you!