Our wonderful, fully automatic Gaggia coffee maker finally died late yesterday afternoon. It was four years old.
We loved our coffee machine, which dispensed either espressos, double coffees or big American coffees, custom-sized for our family cups and mugs, with a perfect dollop of crema on top. This coffee maker got us through building a house, moving, a cancer diagnosis, many parties and many hungover mornings.
Only once did we need to send it in for repairs. Mostly, it was a good machine, always ready to make a cup of coffee. Any time, day or night.
Lately, we noticed some strange behavior. Mysterious messages, weak coffees, no coffees dispensed, etc. Then, it asked us to clean it, but then could not complete the process.
It died at 5:15 p.m. Monday November 10.
It had made 6,221 cups of coffee.
Rest in peace.
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Kathy // November 11, 2008 at 10:11 pm |
Your coffeemaker was more productive and will be more keenly mourned then some members of my own family. No lie.