Making coffee for a crowd

Planning a wedding reception gets you into looking for all sorts of things you will NEVER need again!

So, in looking over the Fairlington Community Center where we will hold our post-wedding reception, Frank noticed that their coffeemaker was clearly inadequate for the crowd we're expecting. Clearly! So being the good Ebay and Amazon shopper he is he went online and checked out the possibilities. He put in a bid on a used industrial-strength coffeemaker (100 cups at a brewtime) like the kind you see in school cafeterias and Old Country Buffet places. Big. Aluminum, with the glass tube so you can see how much coffee you have left. Way too big for the counter in our little galley kitchen.

And of course, just after putting in his Ebay bid, he found he could borrow one from somewhere else. But it was too late to cancel his bid, and since it was the ONLY bid, guess what we won and what showed up on our doorstep yesterday afternoon. Our new giant coffeemaker for a once-in-a-lifetime event. By 6 pm on March 26th the thing will be redundant. Again.

Mark