Each day starts with a cup of gossip
Staff writer
Every morning from Monday to Friday and sometimes Saturday a group of six Marion residents meet at the Sit Down to sip coffee and hang out for more than an hour.
The group consists of Robin Bazil, Austin Mardsen, Brent Miles, Kim Kline, Jerry Kline and Jacob Swaney. They meet in the same room every morning.
The six are a mixture of ages from the 20s to retirement age.
Two to three years ago, Jerry Kline and Robin Bazil talked about forming a group to meet daily.
“It’s just the way we start our day,” Jerry Kline said. “We always like drinking coffee.”
Camaraderie is what keeps the group going, Bazil said.
The group agreed that meeting daily was great way to talk about gossip and things going on in the city.
“It would not be the same to not start off the day with the group and coffee,” Miles said.
The six said they would have no idea what to do at 7 1`a.m. otherwise.
“We only meet for one hour because we have things to do,” Jerry Kline said.
Bazil tells his friends each morning what is going on in the world.
“Fox News, of course,” he said when asked where he got his information.
Some things they discuss at their coffee meetings are pretty raunchy, he said.
Bazil has lived in a lot of places, including the Philippines, New York, and Minneapolis, and is affectionately called the city guy.
“I have been around” he said.
The the owner of the coffee shop overslept. The small group was there waiting for the door to be unlocked.
The location for the meetings was an easy choice, as members joked about visiting Subway.
Marsden is attending Butler Community College for firefighting classes. Swaney, a relative newcomer to Marion and loan officer at Marion National Bank, was trying to meet people before stumbling onto the group. “These are the first guys I met when I moved here,” he said.