Green Mountain Coffee Company is giving away a single cup coffee pot every day to a reader who can tell them the best, in two hundred words or less why they need it. And this is what I wrote:

Working in an office of women twice my age has its perks. They proffer handsome grandsons, ply you with food, and think you are young and beautiful. However, one of the downsides (other than ugly grandsons and jello salads) is the lack of desire for a quality cup of coffee. I am not only mocked for my use of a teacup instead of a mug, but my taste for brews other than Folgers is bewildering.There is nothing more disheartening than carefully scrubbing out the stained coffee pot, measuring out freshly ground coffee from my desk stash, and waiting for it to finish brewing to perfection (or as close as perfection can get in a office coffee pot), only to find them flocking toward my pot declaring that "the decaf tastes odd today".

If coffee enlightenment were possible for them, I would pursue it. But since they have made it abundantly evident that it is not, I beseech you Green Mountain Brewing Company, to recognize my tragic plight as an under-appreciated, overly-brewed, old coffee pot user, and bequeath me with a new pot to delight my senses and tuck under my desk.

Truly, this would be happiness.