Tea Time

So today, I went to a small local cafe for a business meetup. The waiter asked me what I’d like to drink, and I asked for an iced tea. One of my colleagues was then asking about flavors of tea, and the waiter mentioned that they had peppermint tea, which I like.

“Ooh,” I said. “Could I change my order to a peppermint iced tea, please?”

“I’m sorry,” he replied. “We don’t have peppermint iced tea.”

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I looked at him for a moment, just in case he was joking. He wasn’t. He seemed genuinely ignorant of the relationship between tea and iced tea. I didn’t want to burden him, so instead I asked if I could just have a hot peppermint tea and a glass of ice, then.

He asked: “So, you want that AND the iced tea?”

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I clarified that I just wanted the hot peppermint tea and a glass of ice, thank you.

A few moments later, he returned. What he brought with him to serve to me was the following, and ONLY the following:

– A glass of (normal, non-peppermint) iced tea, with a lemon slice, and
– A sealed peppermint tea bag.

And when he set these two items down in front of me, he said:

“I hope this is what you wanted.”