by treazure » Nov 24th, '08, 16:46
Seriously bummed at all of you who got tea between 7 AM EST and right now, 4:14 PM, EST. Son had to take me with him for the second nerve ablation so I knew I'd be without tea till about 11.
hahahahaha.
Sitting there on those hard seats was one thing, my backside is well conditioned to hard seats from several decades in school on both sides of the desk, but two women were there with large styrofoam cups of TEA, darnit, TEA, and one kept taking the lid off to blow it in my dratted direction and they discussed tea.
Tea Chatters, I was really very close to grabbing both their styrofoam cups of tea and swilling them down. So I sat there reminding myself that a.) it is socially not acceptable to assault people and steal their tea, and b.) the drive back home would only take 25 minutes, another 5 to boil up the kettle, 3 to steep, less if I used a lot more, and 1 minute to get it to drinking temperature.
So the kid came out of the OR area, absolutely white, sweating and shaking. Now I've been with him when he's had caudal epidurals (look it up, squirm in horror), 40 visits of many multiple trigger points, 73 epidurals, numerous dye studies and things, and he's always cracked jokes through all of them but the caudal, when I had to start making jokes to keep myself from running, screaming out of the procedure room.
For almost a minute I didn't think of tea, which those women were still sipping from those huge cups. Since the doctor wanted him to wait a half hour before leaving, and I wasn't that sure if the kid (OK, 32 year old kid, he's my youngest) was going to pass out. We're talking ex Ranger, KWIM?
Finally released to go out to the car and he tells me he's going to drive. With Versed and Demerol in him and he's going to drive? Not to mention I already signed a statement promising to drive.
He drove, then told me that we were going to have to find someplace to go walk around because the doctor forgot to write his prescriptions for percocet and the nurse couldn't bother him during procedures.
They still hadn't called to tell him to come pick up his script at 3:30 and he said foo on it, let's go home.
We got back here, I vaulted over the dogs to put the kettle on. Made tea. Considered bypassing the cup and saucer and just swilling it straight from the pot, but I didn't. About the time I had the cups ready on the tray, the kid walks into the kitchen with his 32 ounce travel mug and holds it out for filling. Yep, it took the entire pot of tea. Like all of our sons, he is a tea addict. Also like all of our sons, he hasn't quite gotten the hang of water in kettle, boil, tea in pot, water over tea, lid on teapot. They come by it naturally, as after 41 years of marriage, the husband person has never managed to make tea or the other beverage, but he does support my tea habit.
So now I have one other thing to add to my kettle wish list. Make it so it will plug into a lighter in the car or run on batteries. His next nerve ablation is in December, so if you can engineer it by then, I'd really appreciate it.
NEXT!
I'm starting to suffer from major Teaware lust!
