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Teabgs in sinks. Fuckers

95 replies

SlightlyJaded · 12/05/2011 14:18

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.

OP posts:
MorningPurples · 12/05/2011 16:08

A tea bag does make a closed bin more steamy, and smelly, really. Especially if you have a plastic bin. With orange peels in it.

And likely to cause drips on the way. So I leave it on the side until it's drier, and then bin it..

speakercorner · 12/05/2011 16:10

Ha ha, I do this. And DP hates it. I also leave the top off toothpaste.

I don't do it at work though - i am the one who clears up the kitchen when I am in there making tea.

speakercorner · 12/05/2011 16:11

Oh and I do it because the bin is on the other side of the kitchen, and I am lazy. The bag is too hot to squeeze and I don't want to drip hot tea over the kitchen floor. I pick it up when it is cold and no longer dripping and put it in the bin then. Or I used to - DP has insisted that I stop.

MoshiMonstersRUs · 12/05/2011 16:12

My teens get a ramekin and put their teabags, which are still mushed onto the teaspoon, into the dish. They use a new teaspoon for each cuppa. If I'm out for any length of time I quite often come home to find a strange sputnik type structure on the side made out of teaspoons and teabags. I have pointed out that we do have a bin - and it's within easy reach, but it hasn't made any difference.

RatherBeACyborg · 12/05/2011 16:13

Oh god there are so many things about kitchen etiquette that make me grind my teeth.

We now have a small bowl by the kettle for teabags as otherwise, although they would get to the bin, there would be criss-crossing trails of tea drips across the side and floor.

Also:

'Soaking' stuff
Not emptying out the dirty dishwater afterwards
Leaving the dishcloth in aforementioned dirty dishwater
Leaving the sink clogged with with of food
Swamping the sides with water and leaving it creeping twards the electrics.

We do now have a dishwasher which has solved most of these though.

RatherBeACyborg · 12/05/2011 16:16

I should say as well in DH's defence, he does do his fair share of cleaning. He just doesn't do it MY way so I do grit my teeth as if he was picking at the way I cleaned he would get a swift kick in the backside I would be annoyed. Grin

RatherBeACyborg · 12/05/2011 16:19

Oh and that should be 'clogged with old food' Sorry

BibiBlocksberg · 12/05/2011 16:24

Leaving the sink clogged with old food -check, horrible habit.

Even worse is the one in my office who has some type of curry dish with rice for lunch every day, washes up his plate etc and leaves both the sink and the sponge clogged with bits of chicken, sauce, rice etc.

It's really lovely for unsuspecting colleagues to come along and end up with all the bits in the cup they're trying to wash

heleninahandcart · 12/05/2011 17:06

Thank you OP finally said what I have always thought. It's disgusting and for some reason tea drinkers think it's ok. I've even had friends in my house who have asked 'why not' when I've objected. It's like a freak law of nature that tea bags are allowed to fester. I hate it, the staining, the texture ugh!

Original poster
SlightlyJaded · 12/05/2011 21:44

helen you are right. It is not just that it looks vile, it is the texture when you have to pick it up - cold, damp, squishy

Thank you brave teabag in sink fuckers for stepping up to be counted. I am not persuaded by the 'hot bin' argument but applaud you for your confessions :)

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280169 · 12/05/2011 21:50

my oh does it, i agree minging WHY?????????

isitfriday · 12/05/2011 22:03

I hate it when people use their wet, coffee coated spoons, in the sugar bowl, making it all brown and grainy.

Don't get me started on the soup drinkers who leave their cups to soak - always bits of sweetcorn and noodles floating around....nice (!)

SarahStratton · 12/05/2011 23:47

I confess. I kept one of the ramekins that I swore I threw away. It lives by the kettle and it's sole purpose in life is to collect used teabags.

There, I've said it. I lied. I still own one ramekin that was free with a Gu. Lemon I think, actually.

Piggles · 13/05/2011 05:32

Teabags in sinks - urgh. Not a terribly attractive habit in your own home, but each to their own if it isn't upsetting anyone; but doing it at work is just completely minging.

I am very grateful that my DH doesn't drink tea at all, as I have no doubt he'd be one of the gits who leaves them lurking revoltingly in the sink.

His coffee ettiquette is bad enough - he is another one who thrusts a wet coffee-grainy spoon into the sugar leaving nasty little brown lumps in it. He also seems incapable of getting all of said sugar and coffee into his mug, because the counter is frequently rather unfetchingly pebble-dashed.

He is also a leave it to soak and fuck off never to return type, which is why I have now claimed the kitchen as my domain and do virtually all the kitchen-related stuff.

Christobel51 · 13/05/2011 05:50

Tea bag tongs are the way forward. With practice ( and I've had lots!) you can completely squeeze out the bag without having to touch it so no drips on the kitchen floor or manky liquid in the bin.
There.... solved!

beanlet · 13/05/2011 06:25

Who uses teabags?!?! That's not a proper cup of tea! Grin

hairfullofsnakes · 13/05/2011 06:40

Slightlyjaded hi! I'm sorry I know this is unrelated, but you once did one of my favourite ever threads so I must ask...

what happened to the pom bear couple who served you tinned soup etc??!!!

Please, do tell us! Grin

ginmakesitallok · 13/05/2011 06:40

In work everyone manages to take their teabags to the bin - sorted on that one. But why oh why do they put the teaspoons in the dishwasher??? We only have about 10 teaspoons and hundreds of cups, so every time I go to make a cup of coffee I have to hunt around in the dirty dishwasher to find a spoon.

And as for the bastard who used MY boiled water to make their tea and then didn't refill the kettle - there's a special place in hell for you.

silverten · 13/05/2011 06:48

Before Easter we spent six hours cleaning our kitchen at work, because it was a health hazard. It honestly took that long: black greasy dust on top of the cupboards, tea stains all over the surfaces, horrible mould growing round the sink, dirty crockery put away, brown teaspoons and exploded yoghurts in the fridge.

Loads of people came in and said how nice it was, that they would be looking after it, and that it was terrible that others let it get into that state in the first place....

Twenty minutes after we finished some fucker left a manky cup and spoon in the sink.

Bizarrely, however, nobody seems to leave used teabags in the sink, so I suppose I can be glad of that.

Brew
psisedriteoff · 13/05/2011 08:00

Your work friends, are sickos!!!!!!

Love the thread title

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