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CTyankee

(68,114 posts) Mon Mar 16, 2026, 10:56 AM Yesterday

Poor, pitiful ME!!! This is just UNFAIR! [View all]

Woke up this am and went to start the coffee in my Cuisinart coffeemaker....and it had died overnight! So NO COFFEE this am!

New one ordered and will be delivered here on Wednesday. Meanwhile I have to get dressed and go out for coffee!

If my mother were here she would tell me to think of the poor starving children in China. I always wondered how MY deprivation would in any way help them, so I sulked any way!

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Poor, pitiful ME!!! This is just UNFAIR! [View all] CTyankee Yesterday OP

Folgers? You don't even have instant coffee? underpants Yesterday #1

No, I don't! Why should I???? CTyankee Yesterday #11

I got that story about kids starving in China, It didn't work with liver or lima beans. debm55 Yesterday #2

My response was that we should send the starving children my lima beans. Ocelot II Yesterday #5

Agree and the liver. Thank you Ocelot II debm55 Yesterday #9

Global Food Crisis! No fertilizer! Plenty starving everywhere /nt bucolic_frolic Yesterday #3

No problem.... MiHale Yesterday #4

I thought of something like that but it wouldn't work. CTyankee Yesterday #6

Or if you're really desperate, just eat the coffee beans. Ocelot II Yesterday #7

Dark chocolate covered coffee beans. Yum! CrispyQ Yesterday #8

Yes, they're excellent. And the combination of caffeine and sugar is a real kick in the pants. Ocelot II Yesterday #12

They are good Traildogbob Yesterday #13

nothing beats midwatch coffee OldSWODog Yesterday #20

You lived it!! Traildogbob Yesterday #21

I've done that.. MiHale Yesterday #10

I got that same story from my grandma, gab13by13 Yesterday #14

Ours was starving children in Africa Phentex Yesterday #19

Sorry. I gave up on electric coffee makers long ago in favor of the Pour-over system... hlthe2b Yesterday #15

Get a Moka pot HappyH Yesterday #16

I will look into that option! Sounds good! CTyankee Yesterday #22

Our electric kettle broke just yesterday nuxvomica Yesterday #17

It's a necessity of life! Phentex Yesterday #18