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The Tea Pot
Sep. 26th, 2012 01:07 pmLast Friday I wasn't feeling so hot and decided that I would probably spend most of the day drinking tea at work. So I pulled out the "decaf" orange coffee pot that hasn't been used in the 2 months that I've been working here, cleaned the coffee maker resevoiur so that it didn't taste like coffee, put 8 regular lipton tea bags in it and brewed up a pot of tea.
The oohs and aaah that could be heard coming from the kitchen after it was done and folks going "who thought to do this, it's a great idea" were histerical. Apparently none of these super smart chemists and engineers had ever thought to use a coffee maker to make up a large quantity of tea. I've had no less than 10 different people now come by my desk to thank me for starting to have tea available readily made. (the tea bags, regular, green tea, and decaf, have always been available but apparently it was always too much hastle to open one up, put it in a cup and pour hot water over it.
Now the one thing I have learned is that these chemists and engineers are moochers when it comes to free food/drink. Put it in the kitchen as "up for grabs" and whatever you put there will be gone within 30 minutes. (I timed it when I brought in left over coffee cake after Summer's End). So over the weekend, I went through all my tea stashes and brought in all the flavors that I do not drink on a regular basis and will just go bad sitting in my cupboard, or the kinds I can't drink (like the Blackberry Sage).
So now every morning, as I am the first one here, I pull the "tea" coffee pot out of the dishwasher and make up a pot of regular lipton tea. And after lunch I or one of the others here will make up a pot of one of the flavored teas. I sit close enough to the kitchen that I can hear the conversations and it's been quite amusing listening to them all discussing the pros and cons of the different flavors. The Candy Cane mint has been a big hit with all. The Bigalow Apple Cinnamon has a 50/50 rating. We shall see what they think of the Bigalow Peach today.
I will have to talk to our coffee vendor and see what flavored teas they have and start ordering some or use some of my "discressionary fund" to keep the tea in stock if the coffee guys don't have flavors. But I have head the folks here discussing doing what I did and bringing in the ones that they don't drink enough at home to warrent keeping there.
I just find this whole thing quite amusing.
The oohs and aaah that could be heard coming from the kitchen after it was done and folks going "who thought to do this, it's a great idea" were histerical. Apparently none of these super smart chemists and engineers had ever thought to use a coffee maker to make up a large quantity of tea. I've had no less than 10 different people now come by my desk to thank me for starting to have tea available readily made. (the tea bags, regular, green tea, and decaf, have always been available but apparently it was always too much hastle to open one up, put it in a cup and pour hot water over it.
Now the one thing I have learned is that these chemists and engineers are moochers when it comes to free food/drink. Put it in the kitchen as "up for grabs" and whatever you put there will be gone within 30 minutes. (I timed it when I brought in left over coffee cake after Summer's End). So over the weekend, I went through all my tea stashes and brought in all the flavors that I do not drink on a regular basis and will just go bad sitting in my cupboard, or the kinds I can't drink (like the Blackberry Sage).
So now every morning, as I am the first one here, I pull the "tea" coffee pot out of the dishwasher and make up a pot of regular lipton tea. And after lunch I or one of the others here will make up a pot of one of the flavored teas. I sit close enough to the kitchen that I can hear the conversations and it's been quite amusing listening to them all discussing the pros and cons of the different flavors. The Candy Cane mint has been a big hit with all. The Bigalow Apple Cinnamon has a 50/50 rating. We shall see what they think of the Bigalow Peach today.
I will have to talk to our coffee vendor and see what flavored teas they have and start ordering some or use some of my "discressionary fund" to keep the tea in stock if the coffee guys don't have flavors. But I have head the folks here discussing doing what I did and bringing in the ones that they don't drink enough at home to warrent keeping there.
I just find this whole thing quite amusing.
