Teabgs in sinks. Fuckers

[SlightlyJaded]

Seriously. AIBU to think people who do this should be made to remove the cold teabag with their teeth?

I have worked in a few different places in my time and there are always a few people who think it's ok to put a used teabag in the sink. For the love of god, why? It's rubbish. It goes in the bin. Would you put a half eaten sandwich in the sink? An apple core? No? Then why the fuck would you put a tea bag in there for some hygeine freak poor soul to fish out.

I have sent emails round workplaces and nobody ever owns up but unless the teabags are jumping in themselves there are clearly lots of people who do this.

Stand up
Be counted
Explain to me why it's ok.

I really want to understand.

Oooh moon my mum had 80s tastic white sink with white plastic mixer tap (tres modern) and white draining board. By about 1987 it was utterly rank.

I think it was a combination of all the tanin from tea and 80's curry with sultanas :)

And yes, the 'leaving things to soak' is a weak and transparant lie. DH at least has the good grace to avert his eyes as he says it now.

Used teabags belong in the bin - whether the rubbish bin, compost bin or other type of waste receptacle. One small, rapidly cooling teabag is not going to heat a whole binful of crap.

I also have a zero-tolerance policy on things being "left to soak". Who wants to look at, and manoeuvre around, scabby pots full of dirty, bitty water? Bleurgh.

I keep a special small bowl by the kettle for them.
DP formerly kept leaving them on the draining board, making it go all brown and horrible! The bowl saves a lot of angry draining board related recriminations.

presumably this is happening at work?

why not leave an apple core in the sink, with a little sign on a cocktail stick stuck into it saying "i'm friends with the teabags"

:-)

I have a white sink (not my choice) and I have to bleach it every week or so, otherwise it starts looking stained.

FIL does this. He is most definitely not a neat freak.

He leaves them on the draining board. The draining board isn't made of metal. The teabags stain it

I have asked DH why FIL does this. He says he has no idea.

i have a stainless steel baby swing bin tabletop thing for mine. they stay in there for days until i empty them usually the bottom is one pile of gooey tea mould

I neatly place my tea bag by the plug hole so it can drain, otherwise my little compost bin gets all manky, shortly after i transport the suitably dry/damp tea bag to the said bin eliminating the possibility of tea drips anywhere and regularly bleach the sink.

People who leave wet dishcloths on the side should have little electrical impulses attached to the dishcloths so they get electrocuted when they pick up the cloths.

Jaded, you describe it exactly!

See what I do it press the teabag against the side of the cup with the back of the spoon (thus elminiating the risk of dripping) and then remove it using the spoon and trasnsport it straight to the bin under the sink.

One little tea bag will not:
Heat a whole dustbin
Cause a smell
Start a fire

And I can see no logic in any method other than my own (you can replace bin with compost bin).

Anything else is just an un-necessary faff and vaguley (boak)

And none of these 'hot bin terror' theories account for teabags being left in the sink ad-infinitum.

Jaded, I squeeze my bags like that, too.

I do leave teabags in the sink. It's because I don't want to drip tea all over the floor taking it to the bin which is in the next room miles away. And no matter how much i squeeze the fecking things, they always drip.

Am only using "normal" teabags because they had run out of the drawstring ones last time i bought some. Hate having to get a spoon out of the drawer just to get the damn things out of the cup. I clearly have issues teabag rage.

One of my bugbears is people who don't leave either sinks or basins clean. The things get used many times a day by many people and for many purposes and there isn't a sink/basin fairy to clean up after every use. Grrrrrr.

maybe we need to bring back real tea made in a teapot, complete with cosy

But Ithinknot don't you use a teaspoon anyway to make tea?

My mum does this too... I cannot for the life of me understand why.

Dh, walks into the kitchen, passing the bin, and puts empty yoghurt pot or coke can on the bench. Why the fuck. It makes me want to gouge his eyes out with a spoon

No slightlyJaded Pour water on teabag and add milk. no sugar so nothing to stir.

OMG OP now I'm really shocked.... You don't use a teapot

What do you mean southeastastra? Bbring it back"? It never went away!!

Oh god tea made in the cup makes me heave!! :(

Curry I use a teapot for 3 or more cups :)
Anything less gets teabag straight to cup (but cups not mugs if that helps)

Ithinknot I feel the need to stir otherwise it looks a bit swirly, no?

I leave yoghurt pots lying around too. I have no justification for this apart from the fact that the bin is not in the kitchen but in the utility room which is through another door

And to be honset at work a teapot is not always an option

Nah I just drink it, the milk mixes in eventually

I am a tea heathen

DH does this. Were I not a consistently calm and centred individual, I would -force said teabags into every available orifice get jolly angry, I can tell you!

What particularly pisses me off is, as many others have mentioned, our kitchen sink. The following conversation occurred as we were buying a new kitchen last year:

Mr Limelight: I really want a belfast sink
Limelight: I don't
Mr Limelight: why not?
Limelight: because it'll be harder to clean, particularly because of your insistence on leaving teabags in the sink
Mr Limelight: I don't leave teabags in the sink
Limelight:
Mr Limelight: ok I promise not to do it any more.

So we got a Belfast sink. You can imagine how that worked out.

Fucker.

Ithinknot are you the one who leaves yoghurt pot lids face down on the worktop? Come on now, you can tell me