I was at World Market the other day buying this fancy tea I like--the ridiculously expensive kind with the silk tea bags that seem too pretty to throw away after just one use, making anyone dropping by my kitchen unexpectedly leave worried that I've turned into my depression era-Grandma who washed out baggies and kept a chicken carcass in her fridge until every last piece of rancid dark meat had been picked clean of it.
Anyway, at World Market I spotted some very cool mugs. Since our mugs at home are kinda lame and too small to boot, I decided to buy four new ones. Each mug in this new cache is off-white, thick, sturdy, roomy, and bears a word or phrase: One says tea, another latte, another coffee, and another good morning.
Turns out, the only mug I can use with any regularity is the good morning one. This is due to the fact that I'm insane, and I can't bring myself to use the tea one if I am having coffee or a latte, or the coffee one if I am having a latte or tea, or the latte one if I am having coffee or tea. And inevitably, the correct mug is in the dishwasher when I need it.
I would be ready to check myself into OCD rehab if it were not for this simple fact: If the manufacturer didn't intend me to drink the appropriate beverage from their mugs, then why did they get so specific with the wording?
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