I got an unpleasant surprise. I didn't feel like doing a big breakfast, we didn't have any bread for toast (well, rye bread, but that doesn't make me squeal with enthusiasm) so I decided to go with frozen waffles and fried eggs.
What I do is melt some Smart Balance in a cup to pour over the toaster cooked waffles and I also heat up syrup. First thing was the Smart Balance blew up in the microwave. Nice. Real nice. Easy clean up, but it's just one of those things, yanno? While these were heating, I started to melt the unsalted butter in the pan for the eggs and popped the waffles into the toaster. The toaster is old. It's our second one in thirty years of marriage. But it works, so hey, no biggie.
Except yesterday morning, only one side worked. Really? I usually toast the waffles twice, once to defrost and warm them up, then to brown them (remember, this is an old toaster). Le sigh. I pushed that darned button down multiple times, but it just wouldn't stick. Great. Time for toaster #3.
Finally got breakfast done and I mentioned the toaster problem to Brian. "Yeah, I noticed that when I made those sandwiches last week, that it wasn't working". Seriously? The toaster dies and you don't think to mention it to me? I wasted five minutes pushing that lever down (yeah, okay, I know that's a lot, but I believed I could make it work through shear force of will - I couldn't). When he took his mom shopping yesterday he looked at the toasters at Target. "I'm not paying fifty-five dollars for a toaster!" he said excitedly when he was telling me about it.
I checked Amazon, he said "what about Walmart?" I checked Walmart, found a toaster for $29.00 with great reviews, then went over to Amazon and looked for the same model. Yay, same price, no shipping! It will be here tomorrow.
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