I went into the office today to get some work done and when I arrived discovered my coffee pot had leaked all over the counter. Evidently there’s a crack or something beneath it. So, I cleaned up the mess and threw the coffee pot away. Fortunately, I had a spare coffee pot, the one I shipped to Korea from home, so I drove back to the apartment to get it. I cleaned it and drove back to the office. I filled it with water, put in a filter and some coffee, plugged it in and turned it on. It started gurgling. I set the clock on the pot, sat down at my desk and turned on my computer. I’m just getting started on my stat homework when POP! and the power goes off to half my office, including the coffee pot.
Okay, so there was a power surge and it tripped a circuit breaker. I went into the hallway and opened the breaker box and reset the breaker to my office. Everything should be working fine now. Everything worked fine, except of course for the coffee pot. There was power to the outlet, but the coffee pot wasn’t working. The power surge fried the coffee pot and that was that. So, I expressed my feelings with a string of 4-letter words, poured myself a cup of the coffee that had already brewed and sat down at my desk to stew for a minute before I drove to the store to buy a new coffee pot.
It’s rather ironic that as I type this post, I’m enjoying a lovely cup of tea.
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