Scene: A street with a bench. An old blues man with a battered guitar, dark glasses and a hat is playing and singing.

Blues Man:
I got the cheap ass coffemaker
bought at Wal-mart Blues.
I'd've put a bules man photo up her
But Blogger wouldn't work this morning!
Yeah! Yeah!

A couple of months ago, my coffeemaker died. So went to Wal-Mart and bought a Hamilton Beech Brewstation. In order to sell their product at Wal-Mart, the folks at Hamilton Beech stripped some features out of their top of the line model, like the clock and timer.

Almost exactly two months later, on Saturday July 2, it died. The power wouldn't come on.

I didn't save the box. I didn't save the receipt.

Here's my plan. I bought a new coffemaker at Wal-Mart today. In a few weeks, I'll take the old coffemaker back with the receipt and get my money back.