By Jim Hagarty
2014
Instincts.
The glass coffee pot broke today. It is one of those small five-cup pots that sits on a burner and the coffee drips into it from above. Without the pot, the coffee maker would need to be thrown away too as it is relatively old and there is no chance of replacing the glass pot.
Too bad because it makes great coffee and you don’t have to make enough for an army every time.
This evening, the idea came into my mind to go to a local second-hand store to look for another pot. The chances of finding one would have to be one in one thousand or one in ten thousand but it seemed worthwhile nonetheless and the voice in my head kept nagging me.
I drove there, walked around for five minutes, and voila! There was an identical glass coffee pot selling for $2.
Now the thing is, this glass pot is unique to this coffee maker so I don’t understand why someone would donate it to the second-hand store. It would be useless to you unless you owned the right coffee maker.
I just wish my sixth sense would tell me what lottery tickets to buy, if I was to ever start buying them.
