So How Does The Grinder Work?

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

I finally did it. Today, after a couple of years of regular coffee drinking, I finally asked someone at work to show me how to use the coffee maker.

I have appreciated the kindness of a few people in the office who regularly make the coffee. Occasionally however the morning coffee is gone by the time I get around to wanting a cup or, more rarely, I want a second cup and the pot is spent.

I have, on these occasions, feigned attempts to brew a pot by getting the bag of beans out of the fridge and glancing at the packaging. I'll take the grinder and filter basket out of the maker and look at them for a while. Then, I'll put it all back and give up. They never taught us how to do this at Mormon-sponsored scout camp.

In these cases, I just go without. It wouldn't be fair and I wouldn't feel right asking someone else to make ME a cup of coffee. They don't work for me. Even if they did, I'm a big boy, I can (or should) make my own coffee.

Well, today I just broke down and confessed my shortcoming to a coworker. "Kelli", I glanced at my shoes sheepishly, "C-c-can you show me how to use the coffee maker? I almost always have a cup when you make it but I feel stupid acting like you are my personal Word of Wisdom slave. I admit it, OK? I don't know how to operate a coffee maker. I'm so ashamed."

"There, there, Pete. I'll give you a lesson this afternoon. There's no shame in this. It's not your fault your mother didn't raise you right."

Next step... figure out how to get an espresso machine installed at the house. Maybe I'll tell Donna it's an air compressor or an atomic particle accelerator or something.

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