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We Can Easily be Fooled by Appearances
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We Can Easily be Fooled by Appearances


Apr 5, 2020, 1:50 PM

My wife and I got married when we were both in college. We didn't have much money so we could not afford the top of the line appliances and other household items when the need arose. We bought an aluminum coffee percolator, probably the cheapest we could find, But that old percolator made the best coffee in the world. After college and with our moving around, the old percolator suffered some dents, one being in the spout. With a bit more upgrade, moneywise, we purchased a new and improved percolator. The new percolator did not improve the taste of the coffee one iota, in fact, it tasted even worse, so out came the old percolator.

Some time later my in-laws came for a visit. My father-in-law must have seen that old percolator and thought old Joe21 was too poor or too tight to provide his daughter with a decent percolator. He went down to an appliance store and came back with a super-dooper coffee maker that could do every thing except pour the coffee in the cup. Oops. There was one more thing it couldn't do, make a decent cup of coffee. As soon as my in-laws had left the drive way to return home, my wife and I rushed back inside, got out the old battered percolator, and made us a good cup of coffee.

Lesson learned. Don't be fooled by the appearance of an object.


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Re: We Can Easily be Fooled by Appearances


Apr 5, 2020, 1:59 PM

Now you are the old percolator still working well.

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Apr 5, 2020, 2:10 PM

I know what you mean I have an old GE fridge that my great uncle bought refurbished for my grandmother she used it until she moved into a senior living facility. Now I have it and is the best thing I have. Everybody talks about getting me a new one but I love it in part because it was my grandmother's but also because I know it better than anything they have out their today. I think it is somewhere in the ballpark of 50 some odd years old.

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Apr 5, 2020, 5:21 PM

So true about a coffee maker. Its tougher than one thinks to find a good one. I mean, you can find some very attractive ones out there, but dang it just dont taste right.

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Apr 5, 2020, 5:45 PM

Great post

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