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Maw, she's blogging about tea again!
How not to drink tea:
- Wash teacup and spoon, which are still dirty from the last cup of tea that you drank, and probably rife with all kinds of bacteria.
- Fill electric kettle and set it to boil.
- When kettle boils, pour the water over the teabag.
- Allow to steep for a few minutes.
- Add milk, which goes delightfully well with this tea.
- Let tea cool on your desk.
- Go to meeting, forgetting about tea.
- Leave meeting to advise drop-in student.
- Return to desk; tea is now cold.
- Become ensaddened by cold tea.
- Microwave cold tea. This is never ideal, especially when the milk is already in there, but GOSHDARNIT, you MADE this tea and you're going to DRINK it!
- Accidentally put an extra 0 in the microwave time so you microwave it for 3:00 instead of 0:30.
- Leave the kitchenette and get involved in something else.
- Hear microwave beep and think, that seems like it took longer than 30 seconds.
- Discover that tea has boiled over and microwave is full of tea.
- Make a sort of combination scream/grumble noise.
- Give up, further ensaddened. Dump what is left of tea into the sink, clean out microwave, clean burned-on tea off cup.
- Refill electric kettle and boil water.
- Reuse teabag from before because it was your last Rooibos teabag and you saved it for a second cup, little knowing that you would never get to taste the first, so all you get is this second, inferior cup.
- Add milk.
- Put cup on table behind your desk and forget about it until it is lukewarm.
- Drink lukewarm second-cup tea rather than risking microwaving it again!
- Sigh.
srah - Wednesday, 23 July 2008 - 4:42 PM
Tags: tea