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Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a pe:fe“;:om' Jerry Seinfeld, please copy. the week. Suddenly.outofthemrol‘myayelnoficedl dignified woman sitting down across the room from us. Yes! She ordered a tea! Seinfeld material. Get ready, gang, to see yet another victim. Her tea came, she continued her conversation, let the tea steep, picked up the pot without invoking the 45 degree rule, d:dn'tsomucbug':venpuingghmtolhetuhq.keptbu thumb tucked firmly on the handle, not on the lid â€" and proceededwlifithepotintothemiddleofhercup.dovlypour the tea out hitting one side of her cup, and as the tea, dribbles and all, fell mtothebackoflhemp.lhellnflywlledthepot away to the other edge. Plain and simple, dribble into the cup until there is no more dmibble, and then pour naturally. Not a drop outside the cup. I hope ma‘am, you‘re reading this, and feel truly remorseful about t{x}e fact you‘ve oh so casually exploded a myth. n l en ceR CC Ds n ies 12 PAGE 4 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY the week CursesThâ€"e}_w‘e-r;_r;;thvT;;uTl' o-é'n t.;e-‘?;fect pour, and yet mysteriously the dribblage shows up in the saucer! Cruel world we live in. No there isn‘t. Because in the ensuing weeks, we have tried any number of "surefire‘" ways to avoid the dreaded dribble. None have worked First we tried holding our thumb on the knob of the lid tightly against the pot. Result â€"â€" dribbles and a burnt thumb. Next we opened the lid to a 45â€"degree angle when we poured. Result â€" dmbbles and steamâ€"scalded thumb. For a bit of variety, the following week we did nothing but lay two napkings beneath the teapot and dared it to dribble. Result â€" it took up the dare, and we took up two soggy napkins. "Boneheads," rattled a newcomer on the scene the following week, "you can do all you want, but it doesn‘t mean diddly (not to be confused with dribbly) if you don‘t remove the tea bag. You have to remove the tea bag before you pour." And so we did. Result â€" hot water thumb burn from the tea bag, and spillage all over the table. Just at the point last week when we were about to give up (and restaurant management was refusing our request for additional napkins), I came up with a brainwave. First of 1991 for yours truly, and just in the nick of time. "We‘re focussing on the wrong area, gang, we shouldn‘t be focussing on the teapot itself, we should be focussing on the tea. The way I see it, if we pour the tea ever so slowly, it won‘t flow over the banks of this little spout guy here, but instead will flow evenly and neatly into the cup." "Talk‘s cheap, Rick. Let‘s see you in action." And so I picked up the tea pot, dumped out the bag, held the h'do?ento45degrees.mdnmedinthelpout,pou.rin¢emao ] 1 . Aliiiinennninie nisidintisnntimnlic: dbdrsin t didrndin : Aubl c l 14 slowly ‘"There," I announced proudly. "Didn‘t lose a drop from the tea pot. We‘ve finally solved the mystery." "Uh, except for the mystery of the leaking cup, Rick, have a look at the moat around your cup and saucer." As one of the guilty parties, I used to laugh about it â€" until the day I soaked a notebook, stained my camelâ€"colored pants and practically upended the entire table by attempting damage control. "You know," said a coâ€"worker calmly, "there is a certain way to do that so you don‘t spill any tea." Waterioo Chronicle Second Class Mail Registration Number 5540 Published every Wednesday by The Fairway Group Incorporated 215 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Ont. Then, in the midst of our chuckling, we stop tracks and realized we were guilty â€" on an onâ€" one such idiosyncrasy ourselves. 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