"I'll have one if you're having one" ARRRRRRRRGH

[Miaou]

This drives me insane. It's only my parents that do it (and my dad is the worst)

Conversation goes like this:

Me: "Would you like a cuppa?"

Dad: "Well, only if you're making one."

"I've just had one, but I can make you one"

"Well, only if it's not too much trouble"

"No, that's why I am offering"

"Well I'll have what you are having"

"I'm not having one, dad" (GRRRRRRRRRR)

"well, if there's a cup in the pot I'll have one"

"We don't use the pot dad, we make it in a cup"

"Well only if you're having one then"



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[fryalot]

And....

what's that little plastic thing that golfers put their balls on?

A tee?

Ooooh, yes that would be lovely.

[Tirnanog]

[rosylonginglily]

exdh "what comes after 's' in the alphabet?"

Me "T?"

exdh "yes please"

When I go to a friends house she asks if I'm hungry, I say no, just eaten thanks, she puts a full plate of food in front of me!
And then I eat it, with tea
(yes I am in Ireland)

[ComeOVeneer]

DH goes one better.

ME "woukd you like a cup of tea?"

DH "No thanks, but I'll have a sandwich"

Er, did I offer a sandwich?

[fryalot]

regular convo in our house:

dp: "Are you making a cup of tea?"

me: "no, I'm sitting on my bum watching emmerdale."

(a few minutes later)

dp: "Are you making a cup of tea?"

me: "no, I'm watching telly. Would you like me to make you a cup of tea?"

dp: "Yes, if you're making one"

why can't he just say "put the kettle on, love"

[ScottishThistle]

Oh I hate other people making me tea as I love it weak & everyone else seems to stew it to oblivion!!!

[oranges]

My father had an incredibly annoying habit, that dh seems to have adopted to of asking; Do you want a cup of tea?
Me: Yes, that would be nice.
Him: Well can you make me a cup while you are at it?

[Clary]

NQC I sympathise.

I don't drink tea or coffee (don't like either now and don't want the caffeine).

People often ask, when I have refused both, "what do you drink then?"

Well, a glass of water is great, thanks

[FiachraFrog]

isn't it funny how tea out of a pot tastes much nicer than just a cup of tea?
And how yummy is tea with a fry-up...drooool

(must stop thinking about food....it's Ash Wednesday , a day of fast and abstinence....)

[americantrish]

sorry for slight hijack > was looking for miaou (waves)

[nearlyfourbob]

BTW Greensleeves I think I managed to catch your bug through the computer.

[nearlyfourbob]

Dh to his dad: What would you like to drink?

FIL; What are you having?

Dh: Look you can have anything you like you know...

FIL; What are you having?

Dh: I've got beer, wine, orange juice, tea, coffee, hot chocolate.

FIL; What are you having?

Dh; I'll get yours and then decide.

ME: Here's your water boys.

[Greensleeves]

Nothing much, just a filthy D&V bug keeping me awake, we have all got it but everyone else is managing to sleep!

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

oh whats up sweet?

[Greensleeves]

A nice cup of tea. Oooh, I'd love a nice cup of tea

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

did someone mention tea?

[Pann]

ha!!

only if you're making one yourself......

[Tirnanog]

Come in, the kettles on........

[Tirnanog]

I think you would be deemed very inhospitable if you didn't do the big 'tea' thing here,it's part of our culture

[Pann]

thought so, hunks...

tirnanog - could be an Irish thing indeed - am the son of a Mayo woman, and ALWAYS try to shove tea onto people accomp. with biscuits. MY next door neighbour comes in now and says "no tea thanks" before I have asked!!!

[Tirnanog]

I love tea, but I especially enjoy having someone in and making a big pot of tea and consuming huge amounts of cake, biscits,brown bread and jam with it.

[hunkermunker]

It's the "oh, you decide what I want, but I'll be a smidge cross if you don't get it right" mindreader aspect of it, I think, Pann.

[Pann]

Hmm..is there really anything in these things to drive one mad??

"whatever is easiest"..pretty straight forward..

"only if you are having one"...ditto.

am I missing a crucial bit of the puzzle, please?? Or is it the regularity, and the look if you react on face value?


A variation on the chips thing...
I'd buy a bar of choccy, asking exp if she'd wish one. No. But then she wants some of mine! I say, but you refused 5 mins ago when I was going out to get it. Oh I couldn't eat a full one though, quoth she. Well, ask me to get you one and put what you don't want in the fridge?? I feel like eating a bar of choccy, not two-thirds of one.......for feck sake!!

Have tea-drinking demands from aunties in Glasgow. Refusal, a la Mrs Doyle, is not an option.

[hunkermunker]

Definitely a scam.