# (Old) When Mom's Away...A Coasterless MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 22, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-when-moms-away-a-coasterless-mmp/996477 "2024-01-22T07:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 189
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-when-moms-away-a-coasterless-mmp/996477/189 "2024-01-25T20:18:17Z")
Interesting. As I was snarking about microwaving a mug of water for tea, a related thread was … um … heating up. I swear, I didn’t even know that convo was happening until after I’d posted here! > [@A U.S. scientist's tea recipe has Brits aghast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-u-s-scientists-tea-recipe-has-brits-aghast/996633/15): > > Reminds me of an event back in University, we had some British fellows visiting Canada, and giving gifts to such visitors was an expected thing. One of them was heard to remark to the other that we’d given them “the worst tea cozies ever, there’s not even a hole for the spout!” [They were toques](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tuque). Much cross-cultural hilarity was had. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I hope your Manager sticks around awhile, you get folks like that very rarely in management positions (as you well know). She’s quite literally the reason I keep at this job. She glues the place together, as far as crew interactions, but she also supports me - who never made a 🤬 pizza in my life and certainly never worked an oven - both personally and professionally. Speaking of, today’s gonna be weird. **Sweet Manager** is off today, plus - looking over today’s roster - we gonna have one helluva full kitchen. And we’ve been dead-ass slow lately. I anticipate a lot of stepping on each other’s toes - literally and figuratively - and a lotta standing around bored. And a short shift. Whelp, I’ve ingested my TV dinner (butternut squash ravioli) and I have a pork chop thawing for dinner. Gonna toss some brown sugar and seasoned salt in with that bad boy & let it be all ready for me when I get back. Things are thawing outside and I was even able to successfully pull my car up into the driveway last night, so that was a minor win in my book! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-when-moms-away-a-coasterless-mmp/996477)._