Hot tea.

Hot tea.

Hot water
with a teabag.

Flavored water.

Coffee is
coffee-flavored water
granted

but coffee is simple.

Cup
Spoon
saucer

milk or cream
and sugar
might even be
on the table already!

But Hot Tea?!

Cup
Saucer
Spoon

&

a tea kettle
in its many setups
still requires
either a metal
or extremely hot object
to carry through hoardes
of people
who have been drinking
or seem
to have never learned
the "bull in a china shop"
lesson

another saucer
the teabag
or box
(again depending on setup)

and the inevitable
lemon
honey
skim milk
and whatever
thousand variations
or varieties

these types invent.

Hot teas also multiply
though rarely
at the time or order.

It's always
Lady 1:  "oh you got hot tea?"
Lady 2:  "Yes I did."
Lady 1:  "I'll take one too!"

And it's always with excitement.

Another trip right away!
I don't have any other tables, NO!

It's hot tea.

Flavored water.

Something so simple
can be so annoying.

But let's not forget
the humor portion
of this rant...

Men,
ordering,
Hot Tea.

Business suit power.

An air demanding respect.

Responsibilities
and power many will never know.

"Hot tea with lemon."

My mind breaks out
a thousand giggling laughs.

Internal dialogue:
"I won't forget to bring
your manhood on a side plate
with that hot tea, madam."

External dialogue:
"Right away, Sir."

Hot tea:
demoralizing men everywhere.

02/18/2009

Posted on 02/19/2009
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