Back when I used to have a 6-2 job roasting Fair Trade Organic Coffee, the co-op was expanding into Fair Trade Chocolate production. My production supervisor was showing a guy around the coffee roastery one day and she introduced him to me as the guy who was going to be running the Chocolate Factory. I love it when I can manage to think up and deliver a joke simultaneously. I spoke in a regretful tone warning him that it wasn’t going to be at all like the movie. Willy Wonka was in theaters at the time.

He also had a quick wit. He corrected me by saying that he expected it to be exactly like the movie and then as, an afterthought, confirming that we were both talking about Chocolat.