Can't quite work out

[muninnhuginn]

what precisely is wrong with this statement:

"I've used the last tea bags. I've got the new box down, but I've not filled the caddy."

But, twenty-four hours later, we're highly annoyed.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Grammatically:
It's reasonable (though I'd usually prefer "I've used the last tea bag" singular, I would accept it as reasonable as long as it was more than one bag that was used as a final brewup (either more than one cup with a bag each or a pot with at least two bags in it))

Culinary:
Well, loose leaf tea is usually preferable in terms of flavour, but I *do* quite enjoy a good Assam tea bag.

Emotionally:
Well, the teabags have not achieved "closure" as they are in an intermediate state ... not "up" in safe storage but at the same time they haven't reached the sanctuary of "caddy".

Practical:
It indicates a sloppiness of thought and execution. Things have been started but not finished. There is a perfectly sensible place for teabags "in use" which is the caddy, and a sensible place for teabags "not in use" which is "up" in storage, and by getting them down but not putting them in the caddy it *could* indicate a problem with completing things.
On the other hand, it could indicate a nervousness about invading what one person might consider another's realm of control and expertise. Maybe the thought went "ah, perhaps the caddy gets washed out between each new pack of teabags" or "perhaps there's a right way and a wrong way of filling the caddy and I don't want to risk the wrong way" or perhaps it was just "The caddy (and by extension, the kitchen) belongs to the ravens. The ravens might have trouble flying up to the top shelf to get down the box, so I will do that for them, but I wouldn't dare to take on the dangerous and symbol filled act of -filling the caddy-"!

[muninnhuginn]

We always use two teabags--except when we're absent-minded and put two lots of teabags into the pot.

The right way of filling the caddy is obvious: exactly half a standard box of fair trade teabags fits leaving sufficuent space to close the lid so it doesn't wobble and doesn't crush the contents. Then the half-emptied box is returned to the cupboard (which, incidentally, if filled correctly permits even stunted ravens perfectly good access to teabags) and the filled caddy is returned to the shelf. Failure in the last respect will one day result in the insertion of said caddy somewhere tea caddies do not normally go.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Someone (and I will not say who, except that it *is* whotheheckami!) has not learned that you don't leave loaves of bread open to the air when you've taken a slice (either cut from the whole loaf or a slice from the sliced loaf).

As far as I am aware, he took bread three times, and three times left the rest of the bread to go stale (when twisting the top of the plastic bag would have taken but a second).

Similarly, another friend (who shall remain James S.) leaves the milk out of the fridge if he makes the tea.

My dad used to always forget to bring a teaspoon, in spite of him drinking tea with sugar, if he brought in a teapot, cups, milk and sugar to the dining room.

I think it is a male thing.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Because it leaves you with the job of filling the caddy, which is rightfully the job of whoever used the last teabags.