On Sunday, we flew to Manhattan (Kansas) to spend some time with my parents, brother, and his family. This is Chris’s first visit to the city where I grew up, so I have big plans to show him all the sights. We saw the mall, downtown (all 4 blocks of it) and some of the new developments (there’s now a Bed Bath and Beyond and a Best Buy). But mostly, we have been hanging out with family and relaxing.
Apparently my brother’s coffee pot has “intelligent design.” I say this not because it is a special super-fancy coffee pot with lots of features, but because it outsmarted both myself and my husband.
It is in fact a pretty standard coffee pot, the only exception being that it is made by a different company than the one that made my coffee pot at home. I stood in my brother’s kitchen this morning, peering closely at the coffee pot, trying to figure out how to open the little compartment that you put the coffee grounds in. After five minutes or so, Chris came over. He couldn’t figure it out either.
I gave up. I figured if the coffee pot had outsmarted me, then I didn’t deserve to have coffee that morning anyway.
My dad went over to have a crack at it, and of course figured out how to open the compartment within about 30 seconds. At least Chris couldn’t make fun of me, because he hadn’t gotten the coffee pot open either.
Although when it came time to pour the coffee, I discovered its design maybe wasn’t so intelligent. In fact, it seemed to have the exact same design as every coffee pot I’ve ever encountered: leaky. I don’t understand why, but it is almost impossible to pour a cup of coffee from any coffee pot without losing a little to the counter-top.
