Episode 48 : Tea-time and biscuits
It is tea-time. A misnomer, since more than half the people do not drink tea. You choose from an array of options comprising of tea, coffee, Boost or Horlicks.
You spy neatly arranged horizontal rows of biscuits in a try. And a small pile of broken ones.
You pick a few unbroken ones and ignore the broken ones. You are going to break them anyway. Why not take a few half-broken biscuits as well?
You take your seat at one of the many tables. Placing your cup on the table, you absent-mindedly choose the first biscuit to bite into.
How do you eat your biscuits?
Do you dip them into your beverage and tear away at a soggy chunk of biscuit? Does the beverage enhance the taste of the biscuit? Or does the biscuit enhance the beverage? Or is it a habit that was formed after blindly copying someone?
Or do you bite into your biscuit, slowly deliberating on each chewing motion. Or do you just nibble at it?
So many questions and so many answers.
Anybody thought of these in any of their tea-breaks?
Aired at 2/07/2006 12:36:00 pm
9 Comment(s):
At 2/07/2006 1:45 pm,
Hyde said…
What depends on the mood? Eating bisuits, choosing tea over coffee? Or asking oneself questions?
At 2/07/2006 6:10 pm,
Foccous said…
lol, a person who does everything right is usually the person who is wrong...u dig?
and that post on the underdog, that is exactly how I feel...sometimes
At 2/07/2006 7:11 pm,
Prerona said…
lol - i am one of those who keeps taking the broken ones - trying to get them done 'first' and save the good ones for the end - only, many times, i save them so long that by the time i reach the 'good ones' they've all gone bad :(
story of my life ;)
At 2/07/2006 10:42 pm,
Hyde said…
Parna, I do not know people who hate biscuits. Some brands, some types, but not all of them. So it doesn't come as a surprise, really.
Prerona, you shouldn't waste the good ones. Be fair to both. Heh, heh.
At 2/07/2006 10:45 pm,
Hyde said…
AM, you mean something like going in the opposite direction when everything is going against you?
At 2/08/2006 12:05 am,
Foccous said…
doing what you are accustomed to or what is considered the right thing is often just the way things are done. there is no real thought or reason behind it...doing something out of the common is usually considered 'wrong' even if its the right thing...
wait is that too confusing?
At 2/08/2006 10:08 am,
Deez said…
tea breaks r no-thinking times...
times to just do somehting absentmindedly, mechanically sometimes, and be in a different world .... a short break. :)
....ouch! i need one already.
At 2/08/2006 12:02 pm,
Hyde said…
No AM, you make sense.
Q, you and I have had many Q&A sessions in the past. So don't say you did not enjoy them.
Deez, tea times are when I can think freely. So I make full use of them. :-))
At 2/12/2006 1:16 pm,
Anonymous said…
i sometimes think about the biscuit maker and sometimes the tea maker and whether they, as individuals making biscuits and teas separately, think about how good tea and biscuits are together. do they also think about the eater...or the blogger...or the blog reader. or the people who comment on entries of people who think about teas and biscuits and questions that come to mind when having them.
but isn't that overthinking? lol.
nice blog, hyde. i've always liked the way you write. this one's a step further from your old one. very impressive
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