For SCIENCE!

 Here I am, sitting quietly at my desk, minding my own business, when our VP walks into the office I share with Ann who is my boss and also one of my best friends.

"I have a very technical question for you ladies", he says.

"It is very unlikely we have a technical response for you", I reply.  

He continues, "Which of these machines should I use to make tea, the Keurig or the water cooler?"

Ann quickly replies, "The water cooler".

(side thought:  I am deeply uncomfortable referring to it as a water cooler in this context because that's misleading and imprecise and just all around wrong wrong wrong.  Kinda like how the term "global warming" implies warming only, which, no.  So going forward, the machine shall be called a "water change device".  I have spoken)

Anyway.  So I ask Ann, why do you say that?  Just out of honest curiosity since, had it been me, I probably would have used the Keurig.  Not for any Keurig related reason; it wouldn't even have occurred to me to use the water change device for hot water because, as I mentioned, it is more commonly referred to as a water COOLER, do you see my discomfort now, do you???

Ann explains that the water change device produces hotter water than the Keurig.

Does it though?  At my last job, the hot water tap on the water change device was significantly less hot that the water from the Keurig.

Sooooo.....I propose an experiment, to compare the two and find out once and for all.  Our VP says he can go get a thermal gun from the shop.  I say, "No need!  We're not interested in the difference between the two temperature, just which is hotter, all we need is a finger!"

I grab a cup from the water change device and fill it with hot water.  I immediately realize the error of my ways as the cup is pointy bottomed and the water is HOT and I filled the cup all the way and now I can't hold it and I can't set it down so I am trying to grip it from the rim while VP gets a NOT flat bottomed cup and starts a brew cycle.

By this point, hot water is starting to drip out of the pointy bottom.  I quickly dip a finger into both cups, proclaim the pointy water is TOO HOT (in the hot tub), VP says "let me get rid of these" and he takes the pointy cup from me before I can warn him and I watch AGHAST as hot water droplets get the drop on his palm and we both bolt for the side door, me to thrust it open for him and him to dump both cups out.

So now I have an owie on my finger.  For science though.  Hooray science!

For SCIENCE!