The coffee machine was huge, and stainless steel, and took beans from an enormous hopper, ground them and produced a beverage that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike coffee (GNU DNA). Spotting my face another attendee indicated a corner of the room with their cup hand. “Try that one over there, it’s better. “ “Looks the same”, “I noted, what’s different” “I got into the service menu and switched it from ‘entirely unlike’ to ‘sort of like’!” “Only ‘Sort of’?” “That’s as high as it goes” #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot