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The Art of the Coffee Maker 

From the 'Oooh! Let's Tell a Story about My Wife (and see if I can stay out of trouble while doing it)' File:

Angela (who never drinks coffee!) got me a new coffee maker. I think the old one was our original, first-married coffee maker...no wait, our first one was REALLY minimal (and broke within a couple of years)...so this was our second one.

Anyway, she got a new one this week, even though she never drinks coffee. I came home one afternoon and it's just sitting there on the counter. The kind with a thermal carafe instead of a heating element. All black and silvery, kinda like the oven and the dishwasher and the toaster oven. Nice, I guess. No big deal really. The other one was doing a fine job for a ten or twelve year-old Mr. Coffee.

But you wanna know why she got it?

For me? NO.

She got it for herself. (Did I mention that she never drinks coffee?) Because lately I've been drinking more coffee at home, which meant the old (i.e. 'ugly') coffee maker was constantly sitting on the kitchen counter instead of hiding in the pantry where it typically has been. So she got something that would look nicer on her counter.

This is the woman I married. Just so we're all clear here: I'm not complaining at all! In fact, there is a whole lot about this story that I like because it reminds me of some of the things I really like about my wife. One of which is that she cares very much how our home looks and functions. Neat is the order of the day. Which it wouldn't be if I was actually in charge, because ... well, I'm a bit of a slob.

The other part of the story I like is where she found a coffee maker she could have on the counter and didn't spend too much money to get it.

Oh, and this part too... I now have a coffee maker (for the first time in my life) with a clock and timer on it! This is really kinda cool because -- and maybe some of you didn't know this -- you can actually set the machine at night before you go to bed so that there will be coffee already made when you get up in the morning. Brilliant!!

What's next? A TV with a remote control?