How Stuff Works: Tea

This is the third of four "How Stuff Works" posts from Mother's Day 2010.

How Stuff Works #3: Tea

Alexia's Girl scout troop organized a Mother's Day Tea Party for the day before Mother's Day at a local church.



There was a lot of time and effort invested by some (mostly by Mother's, unfortunately) into getting this event organized.

It wasn't the Tea part of the Tea Party that was complicated (for most). The complicated part was all the decorations, the setting up, taking down and the non-Tea parts that required so much effort.

Finally sitting at their table, both Tanya and Alexia were ready to enjoy the relaxing part of their Tea Party.



A few minutes later, anxious to taste her Tea, a frustrated Alexia finally asked "Mom, can you please stir this for me?"

Tanya replied with an expected "Why do you want me to stir it?"

Alexia, nearing frustration responded "I can't get this to dissolve."



It seems that instead of just putting the teabag into the cup, Alexia had purposefully opened the nice little tea package and simply emptied its contents into the cup of hot water. And then stirred. And stirred. And stirred.

From what I hear, the situation was handled quickly and quietly with little or no embarrassment and a short while later everyone was enjoying their wonderful tea.

Happy Mother's Day!

Stay tuned for the final installment of the 2010 Mother's Day "How Stuff Works" series... coming soon.

Here are links for the first two How Stuff Works postings, in case you missed them:
How Stuff Works: Gardening
How Stuff Works: Cake Decorating

~E