You help yourself to tea and make nothing for me

[venta]

The trouble with reality is that you have to be capable of making your first cup of tea of the morning before you've had your first cup of tea of the morning.

A colleague maintains that coffee (he's talking instant) is at least easier to make, because you don't have to worry about taking the teabag out. I reckon this is wrong: with coffee you have to measure or judge the quantity of instant granules, which is much more difficult than counting up to one (as you would with a teabag).

All this is taking place in the work environment, where one is not easily able to bother with niceties like teapots or looseleaf tea.

Comments

[octalbunny.livejournal.com]

I disagree with both arguments.

If you forget to take the teabag out then you get stronger tea with more caffeine, which helps wake you up.

For instant coffee, just use a spoon of the stuff - howevermuch the spoon gets out of the jar is the right amount.

[venta.livejournal.com]

you get stronger tea with more caffeine, which gives you stomach ache, in my case :(