After brewing my coffee this morning, I noticed an unusual light on the coffee maker. At least it seemed unusual as I'd never seen it lit before. The cheeky thing was trying to indicate that I should clean it.Rather than searching through the owners' manuals, I searched Google to see what had to be done. The Oster site said that I only needed to run three cups of vinegar through the machine using its cleaning cycle. That sounded easy enough except we had only a gallon of apple cider vinegar in the house. Being pretty sure that plain old white vinegar was necessary, we had to go out to buy some. Halfway through the process, it started to ring with a noise more pronounced than our smoke detector. I found out this meant it needed more vinegar. After 40 minutes, it clicked off and was ready for a rinse or two. The light had gone out.
This situation was a little frightening though and perhaps why I'm afraid to buy a new vehicle. I have a fear of owning devices which think they're smarter than I am. My pickup truck is so old that an owner definitely had the upper hand in the smarts department. I know newer vehicles have come to assume their owners are idiots. I'm not sure I could live as the dumber one in a relationship. Jay, however, says I already am.
