Yes, we get our share of the "teaheads" and they drive us nuts because throughout the entire freakin' day I can't wash cups fast enough or fill the damn kettle often enough.
I never realized tea drinkers unlike coffee or other beverage drinkers can't:
a.) reuse a cup even a half hour later
b.) walk to the frickin' sink and refill a tea kettle they keep emptying.
Seriously, I've had them hand me the empty kettle on their way to fill their water bottles at the sink, but think the kettle filling is somehow only the lowly, subservient innkeeper's sworn duty.
c.) are so concerned about caffeine and the evils of coffee, but will drink a dozen cups of a beverage every day that in most cases has as much caffeine in it as coffee.
And don't give me the rigamorole about tea's "health benefits" because we've never seen a one of them refuse a butter filled scone, french toast with carmelized bananas, fistfuls of chocolate chip cookies or any of the myriad of other high fat, luxuriously decadent things we serve here.
Personally, I think its that they know tea is more expensive than coffee and they just want to get their "money's worth' out of their stay. For someone to drink $5 bucks worth of tea in a two night stay versus .50 worth of coffee is just not good budget traveling these days.
Sorry for venting but we have six of them this week and I'm a little worn out from it already. Three more days to go.
They stay. They drink tea. They go away. LOL.
Tim_Toad_HLB said:
They stay. They drink tea. They go away. LOL
Hmmm...this explains a lot-
ProudTexan said:
No coffee?
What's wrong with these people?
Tea drinker through and through. Have never had a cup of coffee in my 48 years. A source of consternation for my DH.
But I use the same mug all day!
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Good for you on the mug! I've had guests sip their tea, be halfway done, decide it's 'cold' and get a new cup and start over. Then again, I've had guests not only use the same mug, they use the same tea bag. I tell them they can have a new one but they insist there's 'plenty of tea' left in the one they have.
Just like in everything else, each person has their own quirk!
I've never had coffee, either, and I'm older than you are...I don't even like the smell of coffee. But we've been down this road before and it leads to no good.
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Bree said:
Good for you on the mug! I've had guests sip their tea, be halfway done, decide it's 'cold' and get a new cup and start over. Then again, I've had guests not only use the same mug, they use the same tea bag. I tell them they can have a new one but they insist there's 'plenty of tea' left in the one they have.
Just like in everything else, each person has their own quirk!
Hey, I'm not letting the coffee drinkers or I should say coffee wasters off the hook that easy either. Nearly every week, i'll do my best to gauge how many cups each guests drank their first morning.
So halfway through breakfast if the carafe is feeling a little low, I'll ask if anyone thinks they'd like another cup so I can get another pot going. Most guests will say, "no thanks, I'm ready to float away" but every so often, I'll get the "Sure, I love your coffee and could go for a couple more cups"
I'll brew it, they'll take a full cup with much more in the pot to go and then its left on the table three quarters full and they are out the door for the day.
The tea dumpers who will go through this whole process to make their tea, then sit and talk everybody's ears off for ten minutes and then dump 3/4 of it and start over drive me to violence.
Its the only beverage I know of that for some folks requires the arrogant, stodgy, pasty, overwhelmingly white middle class, pinheads who obsess over it to only accept drinking it at 185 degrees and not one degree less or its "spoiled" in their minds.
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