Surprise

I make tea every day.

This morning I put two teabags in the tea pot, poured in the water and stirred it around as usual. But I thought while I was stirring that something inside the pot felt kind of funny. 

I prodded all around the inside of the pot with a spoon, trying to figure out what wasn't right about it.

I decided that the bottom of the pot must be dome shaped and that I had simply just always assumed that it was flat. So I just continued steeping and then enjoyed my tea as usual. 

Three cups of tea later I rinsed the tea pot to put it away and that's when I found a rancid tea bag stuck to the bottom of the pot that had obviously been rotting there since yesterday morning.

I drank three cups of tea out of that mouldy pot. 

And I'll tell you what else: it was more delicious than usual.


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Photo: "Tea" by Laurel F. CC BY-SA 2.0.