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A lesson in life learned the hard way: Never gloat over someone else’s stupid mistake. Make it better if you can, but don’t laugh. Just let it slide and do your best to make like you never saw a thing.
Years ago, my wife of one week, The Lovely Marianne, and I woke to the sweet silence of our first apartment. She offered to make the coffee. Most everything was still in boxes, including the new electric percolator someone had given her at the shower. She opened it, tossed the directions in the garbage and filled the pot with coffee and water. She carried it to the gas range, placed it on the back burner, and turned it on high. This didn’t seem quite right to me so I asked if she knew what she was doing. (Her folks had an electric stove.) She smiled and said, "Of course!"
Now this particular electric percolator had a see-through glass part for the coffee and a black-plastic bottom. It occurred to me that it had no business being on the back burner of a gas range turned too high, but what the heck did I know? In my house, coffee had always been Mom’s job.
"Isn’t that an electric coffee pot?" I asked. "It works both ways," she said. "Oh." Then she scurried around the apartment, reveling in things domestic while I stared at the coffeepot. I stood there like the village idiot and watched the pot list to starboard as molten globs of black plastic dripped into the flames. "Hon," I said, "can you come here for a minute? I think you should see this."
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I say this because there’s a BIG ONE waiting for you down the road, my friend, and when you slam into it, you’re going to need all the understanding you can find.
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