Protocol

Let's say you have to go out in the freezing cold for a few hours soon. Your wife/husband/partner offers you a cuppa before you go and you accept.

Then they just sit there. Your available time before you have to go out is ticking away.

Do you...

A. Make it yourself and risk a rant about how they were about to do it?

B. Ask if they are doing it and risk a rant about nagging?

Or

C. Just accept that it's not going to happen and then secretly bottle up a little bit of resentment that you didn't get your cuppa?

 

I would go for B , and ask if they wanted me to Google tea making instructions . Then make a dash for it....

 

It's a cuppa

a) OR, offer them one and make it for the pair of you. (No risk of rant)
b) Or, do it yourself and no risk of nagging?
c) Or, why waste energy on resentment? It's a CUPPA!!!!!!

 

As an ex-electronics engineer, I just say would you like me to repair your kettle, that is before they offer me a cuppa :-)

 

As I always do, make my own.lol

 

I went for option A, and got a rant.

 

Next time just say thanks,but no thanks. Who wants a full bladder oly to be hit with freezng cold?

My oh has never operated our kettle, our oven, our stove......so the forensic people would only find my fingerprints on the tools of culinary destruction

 

Ah yes. Option D. That one comes with a rant about me being in a mood for no reason. I must be in a mood. Why would I decline a cuppa if not in a mood?

 

I never decline a cuppa even if i don't want one, because when you do want one, you won't get one

Saying that, I was out combining a large farm, very hot day and was in ned of a drink, farmer came out and said would you like tea/coffee, tea please, every time the t&t came out there was a gallon of tea and the driver had to wait for me to drink it to return the gallon jug, 7 t&t's later the tea was still coming out