Hot drinks are such a pain!

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I'm half Irish and half Yorkshire so I have been made very much aware of how much of a freak I am for not liking tea. I hate coffee too and can't be arsed with hot chocolate.

I'm not trying to tell anyone else they shouldn't like them. Whole histories and businesses built on tea and coffee; enjoy what you like.

But...

I organise and facilitate a lot of meetings for a wide variety of groups and the tea and coffee provision always falls to me and it is such a pain in the arse. Sometimes we are in our own building so it's 'just' a case of filling and switching on the urn, making sure there is fresh milk, checking all the stocks and then washing up after. But sometimes we hold community forums in random places and I end up with flasks of boiling water in my car, having to buy heatproof disposable cups, stopping off for milk (which always ends in wastage because it is out too long at the meeting to be reused), dragging round a whole case of different brews and bags (as well as projector and all stuff actually relevant to the meeting) and lots of petty cash nonsense.

It is such a pain...but people really cannot cope for longer than half an hour without a hot drink. It is the first thing everyone wants and there are complaints/storm outs if for some reason I fail to provide everything.

I know 99% of you will be on the hot drinks are essential side but is there anyone who feels the same and thinks, just cope for a few hours without! Water/squash is so cheap and easy to provide.

This is lighthearted, I know I will never win against tea fans; I just get miffed spending so much of my professional life thinking and working around mud-in-a-cup and wonder if anyone can sympathise!!

I've never understood this necessity to have a tea/coffee on the go and to wander round a shop/walk into work whilst slurping a drink.

So many many people seem to feel that a drink on the go is the only way to function.

I've never understood this necessity to have a tea/coffee on the go and to wander round a shop/walk into work whilst slurping a drink.

Do they only slurp while on the go, and just drink normally when they are not moving around?

I understand your irritation, OP, but you're right - you will never convince people that water or squash would be just as good! Tea and coffee are nice, comforting in cold weather, a mild stimulant and just part of social culture. Water is boring and people usually carry their own. Squash is for children!

I don't get it either. Water or wine for me 🤣

It’s almost like tea and coffee are addictive or something.