How not to make coffee
Oct. 10th, 2013 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylAfter lunch I bumped into a colleague in the area next to one of the vending machine. I started discussing something I'd set up for them while they pottered about preparing a cup of coffee to their satisfaction; a process that involved getting one cup from the machine, adding milk from the fridge, slugging back part of the contents and replacing the cup in the machine with an order for more hot water.
I wasn't entirely paying attention — I'd foolishly assumed they knew what they were doing — so I was more than a bit surprised by an astonishingly loud bang and a slick of hot liquid rapidly spreading itself out over the vinyl tiles around the machine. Taking a sharp step back, I quickly realised what had happened: adding the extra water had overfilled the cup, causing it to pop out of its holder with explosive force, and fall to the floor sending a flood of coffee-like substance everywhere.
I tried to help with the mopping up — I really did! — but I was laughing so hard I'm not sure my efforts made all that much difference...
I wasn't entirely paying attention — I'd foolishly assumed they knew what they were doing — so I was more than a bit surprised by an astonishingly loud bang and a slick of hot liquid rapidly spreading itself out over the vinyl tiles around the machine. Taking a sharp step back, I quickly realised what had happened: adding the extra water had overfilled the cup, causing it to pop out of its holder with explosive force, and fall to the floor sending a flood of coffee-like substance everywhere.
I tried to help with the mopping up — I really did! — but I was laughing so hard I'm not sure my efforts made all that much difference...
