Not until this morning when—for the umpteenth time this week, just like every week preceding—I reached for a paper towel to dab some coffee from my kitchen counter after filling my cup, did I finally recognize the conspiracy we have faced as consumers. I am now convinced that the manufacturers of coffee makers for home use have been receiving payoffs from the manufacturers of paper towels.
Goes like this.
The people making the coffee makers purposefully mal-design the carafe so that no matter how you try to pour coffee into your cup, some of the coffee will escape and dribble all over the place. I don’t care how fast, slow, or cautiously you try to pour—you are certain to make a mess. To maintain the poor carafe design in some form of perpetuity (and bolster sales of paper towels) the people making the towels provide kickbacks to the folks producing the coffee makers.
Simple. Difficult to prove. Lucrative.
--Mitchell Hegman
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