Making Important Decisions

With all of the decisions each of us face each day... how to save the planet from global warming, controlling the possibility of runaway inflation, how to terror-proof our homes and communities... perhaps none is more critical than determining how to obtain a really good cup of coffee without spending $6 a cup.

Keeping that in mind and knowing our coffeemaker was no longer doing the job, my wife began a 3-day quest to pick the perfect replacement. She considered some of the lower priced models and determined that they probably wouldn't meet our objectives.



So she considered a more sophisticated solution, but decided we might have to remodel the house to make room.


She found a lot of people recommended this, but decided that the method was just too much bother.


Finally, she settled on my original suggestion:


That way, if she doesn't like the results... I gave her really lousy advice.

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