Restaurant Riddle

[debodun]

What happened when the restaurant's coffee maker broke down?

 

[Pinky]

They had to hire someone else to make the coffee?

 

[Aunt Marg]

This time don't give the answer away so fast, Deb.

I'm thinking...

 

[Aunt Marg]

They handed it a box of Kleenex?

 

[Aunt Marg]

They quit serving coffee?

 

[debodun]

All replies so far are not quite what I was thinking. Try again.

 

[Pinky]

They had to call in a therapist.

 

[Aunt Marg]

They fixed it?

 

[Aunt Marg]

It made for some very unhappy customers?

 

[Aunt Marg]

They bought a new one?

 

[Pinky]

They used the second coffee maker.

 

[Ferocious]

What happened when the restaurant's coffee maker broke down?

They gave her a cup of tea and told her to lay down for half an hour

 

[Aunt Marg]

They switched over to instant coffee?

 

[debodun]

You're being too literal. Try thinking of a pun.

 

[Aunt Marg]

They called in Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood)... The Dead Pool, 1988, to come in and tell everyone... "you're $h*t outta luck"?

 

[Pinky]

It cried its eyes out, then got back to work? Grabbing at straws now

 

[Aunt Marg]

The coffee maker broke down, because they ran it into the grounds?

 

[Aunt Marg]

They told the coffee-maker to dry it eyes, and shape up or ship out?

 

[Aunt Marg]

It was grounds for a new coffee-maker?

 

[Pinky]

It was grounds for dismissal.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Coffee drinking ground to a halt?

 

[debodun]

You're all around it but not quite there.

 

[Aunt Marg]

It was a black day?

 

[Aunt Marg]

Upon close examination, it was found that the coffee-maker suffered an electrical short and needed to be grounded?

 

[Aunt Marg]

All of the chatter from the coffee-drinking, gossip-mongers grounded to a halt?