How *NOT* To Make Hot Chocolate...

I thought a little humor might be in order this weekend, so I'm going to share a story from this past Christmas Eve.  J had asked me to go down and make her some hot chocolate.  I decided to use M's Keurig for it.  I managed to turn it into a 21 step process that went basically like this:

1) Find a Hot Chocolate K-Cup in the mess of K-Cup's in the pantry.

2) Discard old K-Cup from the machine and put the new K-Cup in.

3) Five minutes later after pushing every button on the machine multiple times, multiple buttons at the same time, holding buttons down, opening and closing the reservoir, taking the K-Cup back out and putting it back in, etc. Rather than go ask J how to use it, instead head to downstairs computer to get on the Internet to figure out how to turn the thing on. 

4) Armed with the knowledge of a power button the back right of the machine head back to kitchen.

5) Turn on Keurig - SUCCESS....

6) Stand there and watch it tell me it's not ready for several minutes while wondering if it would've been easier to microwave some water and use some old fashioned hot cocoa mix.

7) Machine says it's ready, but now I need to guess at the cup size. After pondering that briefly settle on a cup size and hit the button to brew.

8) Stand there for 2+ minutes while nothing happens.

9) Again, instead of going to ask what I'm doing wrong, head BACK to the computer to do more Internet research.

10) Determine that maybe I messed up something back in step 3.

11) Head back to the Keurig and start checking everything. 

12) After opening and closing the K-Cup lid, and trying to brew again I now have a stream of warm chocolate liquid going into the cup.

13) Get concerned when the stream of warm chocolate liquid turns to water while coffee mug isn't full.

14) Get more concerned when stream of water stops with cup only 2/3rds full despite picking the next to largest cup size.

15) Hit "brew" again and watch more water fill cup with no signs of stopping.

16) Frantically get into cabinet to find another mug to take the excess water.

17) Watch it fill up partway while wondering if the original cup of Hot Chocolate is alright or not.

18) Ponder throwing out Hot Chocolate and starting over, then realize if the one I have is wrong then the another would likely be wrong as well.

19) Decide to take the Hot Chocolate upstairs to J and let her try it while neglecting to mention anything from the first 18 steps above.

20) J says the Hot Chocolate is fine (as to whether it really was or not, who knows), and then proceeds to be thoroughly amused at the fact that I can't figure out a simple kitchen gadget.

21) I now thoroughly humbled return downstairs to turn the Keurig off and vow to never use it again. 

- M