You know you're "addicted" to tea when ....
When you are restricted on caffeine intake so you scour the net to find what teas fall within your doctor’s orders on allowable amounts, in desperation for something other than water to drink and then go on a shopping spree you can’t really afford to get a bunch.
When the tea-drinking day comes to an end and you feel guilty for not having drunk enough cups of tea (or enough different teas) and you promise yourself that you will do better tomorrow.
When you have more tea stained area on your counter top than the color it once was and yet you wipe it down and clean it regularly somehow the stain is still there!
When your doctor asks what you do for fun and you say “tea.” And you expect him to just understand what you mean without any other information.
After I left I was like, wow Amanda, you could have at least said you like tasting and talking about the flavors and things instead of just “tea.”
He asked me “tea?” in quite a skeptical manner and I just said “Yes.” I have no idea why I just thought that was enough information, it’s still cracking me up a day later.
Yep. Literally LOL’d. :D (Doesn’t hurt that I’m reading the thread from the beginning and sorta making mental ticks (yep, yep, ooooh guilty…) as I go.
The ongoing High Park Fire in Colorado is behind my Condo Complex.
My daughter and I discussed what to do should I have to evacuate when the fire was 2 miles from me.
She told me later that she knew I would save my laptop, family photos and all my tea! (so sad…what a reputation!)
When you drop & crack the bottom off your travel mug, almost cry because you did & on this morning it housed your favourite iced tea. And you head directly to buy a new one even if it means you might be late for work.
I actually took it quite calmly on the outside. Inside I was screaming.
On the upside the new one I bought is prettier than the original.
Or you buy several mugs until you find JUST the right one for your tea habit- and then never use the not-quite-right ones you wasted your money on.
When you go downstairs to make some tea because reading these posts made you want to drink some tea.
You peruse the tea aisle in the grocery store to scoff and mock all the bagged teas-yet you sometimes buy one anyway.
So guilty. I sometimes avoid eye-contact with the teas so my roommate (who I shop with) doesn’t think my tea love is out of hand. I just like to look. A lot.
Uh you start advising the people buying bagged tea in the tea isle of the grocery store…and try to get them to buy loose leaf tea…and sometimes they look like a deer in the headlights. (Other times they want to follow you…but maybe that doesn’t mean on Steepster :(
I do this too—no matter how much tea I have, there’s always something I want, usually just out of curiosity. Both the bf and my dad give me this “oh god, please don’t peruse the tea aisle” look when we go grocery shopping XD
Hahaha Careful Bonnie! I know the deer in headlights look very well. I have a lot of friends who don’t understand my tea love, and whenever they ask about why I have so much tea (as they think it’s all the same)… my response to them is immediately accompanied by their glazed over expression.
I’m the same Alphakitty! I wish there was just samples of every tea in the world so I could stop being so curious and just try them all already!
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