Tea Time

         The table was adorned with a light dusting of dishes.  Teacups and saucers and cunning little spoons and tongs.  The table was strewn with runaway food: nibbled chocolates in brown pleated cups, toasted pine nuts, a broken sugar cube, coconut hair, a vanilla wafer with a smear of Nutella (N&N’s), a cow pitcher of milk, an animal cracker, a shot of gin, assorted droges…

         Come here often? He asked.

         Umm Hummm; you?

         Mind if I sit down?

         Umm, Umm.

         Thanks, could you pass an animal cracker?

         Monkey, Lion, Elephant, Giraffe, Pangolin?????

         No Pangolins.

         Here’s a Giraffe.

         I love to bite the heads off.  Animal crackers are the gateway cookie of geeks.  They graduate to Peeps and Chickens watch out.  How do you use the gin?

         One teaspoon per teacup.  The gin’s juniper shmouzes with the the lapsang leaves and nets one a nifty bilateral buzz.

         May I?

         Please….