[QUOTE=teela brown]
The book implied that both of these infractions would point you out to others as someone too penurious to let a few drops of soda or tea go to waste
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I’d like to see the look on their pursed faces when I then proceed to eat the ice too.
[QUOTE=Ghanima]
You may squeeze in the privacy of your own home. Please spare the rest of the world when in public, though. Sort of like licking your plate/knife.
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Oh oh the horror of you having to see me press my teabag against the side of the cup with the back of the spoon! I’m surprised you don’t faint straight away.. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Ghanima]
You may squeeze in the privacy of your own home. Please spare the rest of the world when in public, though. Sort of like licking your plate/knife.
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<aside> And if you do insist on licking your knife (in the privacy of your own home) please do not then place it back upon the kitchen bench so that unsuspecting flat-mates may be deceived into thinking that it is a clean knife when they go to make their peanut butter sandwiches. :eek: 
Eeeeew…
[QUOTE=Kalhoun]
I try not to make a mess, which I guess makes me look slightly more civilized than I actually am. My more immediate issue is how to get from the coffee maker to the garbage without the basket dripping all over everything, and without dripping on my already stained-and-dingy dish cloths. I mean, it’s not the end of the world, but the stained-and-dingy dish cloth makes my skin crawl.
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Take the garbage can to the coffeemaker. That’s what I do, and so far my grungy dishtowels have been spared. Along with my cat, who seems to consider any drips and drops of people food on the ground to be fair game. I don’t think he needs a coffee habit to match his floor food one.
I’m a squeezer. Squeeze with the spoon against the inner side of the mug. This is purely so the teabag doesn’t drip over the floor as I transfer it to the bin.
Next time you go out take a garlic press and squeeze out the bag with that. As they look on in horror you can tell them it’s green tea, because you’re wasting the least amount possible.
Why not just put the bag directly into your mouth and suck the last precious drops of moisture from the bag?
I used to be a squeezer until the vasectomy, now I just let my teabag rest until slightly drained.
What?
[QUOTE=nd_n8]
I used to be a squeezer until the vasectomy, now I just let my teabag rest until slightly drained.
What?
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Don’t worry; we’ve got a seat saved for you right here next to Boyo Jim.
[QUOTE=Ghanima]
Why not just put the bag directly into your mouth and suck the last precious drops of moisture from the bag?
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No sugar.
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion]
Don’t worry; we’ve got a seat saved for you right here next to Boyo Jim.
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I’ve had a vasectomy too, but the squeezing hurts so good.