Tea hates me.

It's a love / hate relationship.

I drink it daily  - unabashedly; devotedly.

Then it burns me, it scalds me in retaliation. Uhuh. True love~! <3

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What brought this on, you ask? Well, it burnt me today, as well as that candlewax from table 18...but let's just start with the tea.

Two years ago: I burnt my arm on the kettle, pouring a cup of - you guessed it, TEA!

One year ago: The scene was set. It was cold, and snowy, and I was at the suffering the height of the worst sickness seen in my lifetime. So there I was, at some god-awful skiing place where the only thing colder than the snow was my nose, and I desperately craved a cup of warm, faithful tea.

I waved away the extortionate price tag - ($3.00 for a small polystyrene cup of tea?! Seriously?!) - and took the warm object between my hands, savouring the source of radiating heat and inhaling that familar aroma...

Basically, I was glad that I had my tea. So I drank it. And promptly burnt my mouth - darn!

One month ago: It was open day at the university. I had just sat through a taster course of law and justice. Hyped up as I was after studying the intricacies of the criminal mind, I decided to award myself with a nice, warm cup of tea...

You can guess what happened next. Burnt tongue for at least two weeks.

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And here we are, at the present day. I'll cut it short here, because I'm sure you've all had enough of melodramatic recounts XD

Basically, I was going to serve a teapot of hot jasmine tea to a customer, but I spilt it over my hand :/

It's okay, but it stung a bit. Duh.

It wasn't my fault! I was just talking to Mage-chan and probably gesturing wildly as I spoke, a dangerous habit of mine. Let's backtrack, hmm?

'Gesturing wildly' with a pot of hot tea in one hand? Not. A good. Idea.

So yah. I got burnt :(

But it's okay because I still love my tea <3

*puts kettle on*

~Shining Sunlight~