Blame the coffee pot

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I have been puttering about, getting nothing done, not even on myLot. My brain's not working properly. It needs coffee See, earlier today when I was going to make coffee, I discovered that the last time someone pulled the cord out of the percolator, it broke. The plastic housing on the end that plugs into the pot was broken and had come off, leaving the metal contacts for the electricity exposed. I didn't dare use it, for fear of being electrocuted. I pulled out the old drip machine, the one I kept and put away in case of emergency. I washed it all out as best I could and make a pot of coffee in that. Ugh! It was horrible. For one thing, I forgot that you need to use more coffee in the auto drip machine, so it tasted like brown water - brown dishwater. Gross. I dumped it all out, ran vinegar and water through it and then another run through with plain water. Still, there's lime scale or something in spots where the vingegar didn't reach. And I remember now why I hated that coffee maker It leaks water the whole time it is brewing. I am researching the possibility of buying a new cord. I don't want to replace the whole percolator. I might be able to fix the old cord with a bit of superglue to hold the plastic housing on, but it might not be entirely safe. I don't know how I will manage in the morning with either yucky coffee or no coffee. Maybe I can buy a coffee on the way to church. I didn't realize how much the percolator ahd changed my tastes in coffee. I may never be able to use a drip coffee maker again. How do you prepare your coffee? Are you so accustomed to the way you make it that it doesn't taste right if you brew it another way?