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Subject: Re: Unusual Teabag habits

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Frank

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Date Posted: 10:43:32 11/02/02 Sat
In reply to: Willie 's message, "Unusual Teabag habits" on 04:42:11 11/02/02 Sat

Odd My wife does the same thing at to put the bag in the sink. I wuld just put them in the rubbish ben. I guess tis how we were trained to do thing or showned.

Frank

>My father was bitching about my habit of putting used
>teabags into the kitchen sink, the irritation being
>that already taking his share of the kitchen chores in
>bad grace, having to lift out two wet teabags and bin
>them before incompetently washing dishes gets his
>proverbial goat.
>
>Having posted earlier about the Halloween parcels, I
>got to wondering WHY I take one step left and drop the
>teabag into the sink rather than one step right and
>drop it in the bin. It's another habit from the days
>of living with my mother and her mental foibles. I'd
>forgotten, but she used to be afraid that the "hot"
>teabag would start a fire in the bin! If I put one
>in, thinking she wasn't looking, she'd shout, stamp
>her feet, and blink in exasperation, maybe even
>grabbing a sppon from the drawer and fishing out the
>item again. So it became easier to do it "her way".
>
>Isn't it funny how stuff carries on?
>
>I must look out for other things ingrained in me from
>those days....

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