You have …… I know you have .
You have heard me lament no end my frustrations over the cheap shit crap I have purchased. The toilet roll holder that pins a roll so tight to the wall it gets shredded half to death before the roll will roll . Towel hooks with a design that allows the towel to instantly slide to the floor…. it’s replacement that won’t tighten enough to stop it wobbling to a 35 degree pitch …
I recently broke the glass pot on a fairly new cheap shit coffee maker and experienced some mild excitement in finding a generic “universal” coffee maker carafe replacement. The carafe looked good enough as how good does a glass coffee pot need to look ? At $9.95 and as it fit the coffee maker to a T ….. I deemed it perfect .
When we first came to Florida I made a huge “Yankee” mistake… not once, but twice . I went fishing at the beach for six hours barefoot . If you’ve ever experienced sunburn on the tops of your feet you must surely feel empathy. The memory of not being able to wear shoes for a week due to both pain and the size that those two red lobsters had swollen to came back the other day.
You see, the new carafe has a small design flaw ….. its shape . No matter how careful, you just can’t pour a cup with out 10% of the coffee running down the side to drip all over the counter. Or as happened… onto the top of my foot .
Generations ago uneducated men knew how to make a coffee pot that didn’t piss coffee on your foot. And now it takes a design engineer to create one that does …..
I’m betting those uneducated coffee pot makers of years ago were too smart to stand barefoot in the sun for six hours as well….
