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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
Comments (6)
Cheryl - July 24, 2008 - 8:10 AM - ℓ
You are my grandma. She used to forget about her tea all the time. She was always finding cups of cold tea in the microwave.
Aunt Pam - July 24, 2008 - 9:29 AM - ℓ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=M4Qadty4xxw&feature=related
Here's a little video for you.
I guess it's a good thing that I have an aluminum cup for my tea at work. (aluminum on the outside, plastic on the inside), so i can't microwave it. I often get the cold tea scenario too, and am saddened that I can't nuke it up. Although I do have a friend here at work who saves his cold tea and puts in the fridge to make iced tea out of it! Isn't that nifty? I should do that too.