Well, we have finally met Mr and Mrs Fawcett. We were invited for morning tea. Quite frankly there were a number of things we found disturbing.
Mrs Fawcett, I cannot bring myself to call her Edna, especially after having met her just the once, made the tea using teabags. It’s a process I don’t overly mind, especially if one is in a hurry; and we were in a hurry given what I have to tell you next. We couldn’t wait to drink our tea and leave.
She put the milk in with the teabag. I can think of little else so disgusting. Milk in the cup with the tea bag! After which boiling water was added. But, for that brief moment, when milk sits at the bottom of the cup with the teabag in a sort of brown gunk! Yuck! None of our children were brought up to do that, unlike the children of Mr and Mrs Fawcett. It’s all most unacceptable. And all served in Duralex tempered glass cups!
Mrs Fawcett couldn’t stop talking; talk, talk, talk about nothing. That was when your father had this inspired thought: it’s almost impossible to turn a Fawcett off! He was just thinking about it, and he snorted his tea all over their formica-topped table! It’s almost impossible to turn a Fawcett off! It was hilarious! Hilarious!
So dear, to cut to the chase, your father and I forbid you to marry into that family, and as far as we’re concerned the engagement is off.
To listen to the story being read click HERE!
Has a familiar ring to it…
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Not so common these days I suspect, but not uncommon in the days when people got married!
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Love the play on words. 😀 What a terrible tea making practice. Ugh.
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Care for a cuppa?
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I love it when I come to read your post and end up laughing (demurely) for the next half hour or so. The characterization here is brilliant. Were you Hyacinth Bucket in another life?
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LOL! I was more likely one of Hyacinth’s sisters. I did warn you yesterday that today’s story was to be “an unhappy one which I hope you enjoy”!
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I did enjoy it. But now the question arises: which of the sisters were you? Rose (the slut), Daisy (the sweet but unkempt, inveterate reader of romance novels) or Violet, (who owns a home in the suburbs with enough room for a pony)?
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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I thought you were a virgin Bruce……….. St Bruce, Virgin and Martyr as I recall………..
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I was concentrating on the Martyr bit.
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Oh my, a disaster averted. Imagine marrying into a family who takes tea in that manner. Heaven knows what other nasty habits they might have.
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I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they drank instant coffee.
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Oh, the horror! And red wine with fish. Shudder.
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You know them?
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Now that really is a crime!!
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I usually prefer it!
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Oh dear, this means the end of our friendship ………
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It’s ok – I ruin it with sugar, and sometimes I leave the coffee out altogether!
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Well, as long as you don’t put the milk in first …….
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Oh, I thought you meant the red wine with fish.
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It depends on the fish… Sometimes the fish takes a long long time to cook, and by the end of it there’s very little white left, so I have to start on the red…
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You really are my long lost brother, aren’t you?
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LOL!
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What? Not that I make tea that way, but if I was the child of the visitors, I’d be fleeing, FLEEEING to the arms of the Fawcetts, who seem harmless and fun compared to mean, judgmental mummy and daddy…
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Lisa – where’s your sense of CLASS! (But, yes, I think I’d be fleeing too!)
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Right on, Lisa! We should take mummy and daddy to Japan and see how they fare, having tea in that consummate art of the tea ceremony….
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We’re all a bit green when it comes to Japanese tea.
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They’d find things wrong with that too!
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But with the bare feet, sitting on mats, using a brush-whisk, and various gestures of protocol….they would be so.ooo. out of their element! Mummy might be rendered speechless!
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I agree with you arlingwoman
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You can learn much from how a person takes their tea!
Some people simply have no class… Great story though
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The modern generation don’t know how to let tea drawer and pour it properly. The world has gone down the plughole!
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Hear hear!
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Drinking tea in the morning. How could they?
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Derrick! How classless! You do the morning crossword with a coffee?
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Naturally
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What a tempest. You do have a knack for cutting to the heart of a character.
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I think Cynthia cottoned on to the characterisation a bit when she thought of Hyacinth Bucket in the sitcom “Keeping Up Appearances”!
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I’m pretty sure the Fawcetts might have a thing or two to say about Mummy and Daddy ……….
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The Fawcetts are hard to turn off.
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They really sound like drips, never pouring tea and totally tapless – I mean hapless! 🙂
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Mapless as well – if they don’t know where they’re going
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Around in circles? 😁
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So funny! But seriously, don’t you just hate it when people make tea that way?
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(Secretly) yes!
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That ran very nicely 🙂
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