Alan's work coffee experience (posted to the SM list a few years back):
So let me start by saying I only recently got a Bodum one cup filter for work and I haven't got around to getting a little hand grinder yet so I'm using an old (early 60s I would guess) chopper. It's a very cute little chopper with a little on/off button on the side of a white cylindrical body, bought more because I liked the look of it than as a serious grinder, but hell it's the smallest grinder I've got in this hemisphere, so to work it goes.
Have you noticed how when you start grinding your own coffee in an open plan office everyone thinks you're mad? This isn't really assisted by an old whirly blade that has to be shaken a lot to get any sort of grind and is noisy as hell.
Especially when the cord isn't very long so you have to move right in to the corner of your cubical and hunch over with the grinder between your knees and shake like hell. In short it does not look like something that should be done publicly. After a few comments I found a way to get the grinder on to the desk.
So there I am a week later, everyone now well and truly sure I'm mad, looking smug with 14g of ground fresh Ethiopian, I take the top off the grinder and inhale the aroma of the great coffee to follow. Remember how I said it was a cylindrical body with a very small on/off button? Well that on/off button is right near the middle of the grinder so as I grab the grinder that little switch is in the middle of my palm and before I can stop myself it's pressed.
Me, the computer, the desk, the chair and just about everything for 2 meters covered in coffee! People came from all over the office to point and laugh.
Luckily I had 14g of beans left so I just dropped it in and started again, but the cred is gone.
Any work grinding/brewing experiences that can top this?
And that's why I got the Zass Turkish!