It’s time to be forthright with you guys. My family tells me this, so it must be true. I’m an addict. Unironically, they held an intervention for me about said addiction. What am I addicted to, you ask? Stop toying with us, you say?
Tea.
My cousins think I’m addicted to tea. How does this affliction hurt me? How does it hurt others? It doesn’t. I don’t have withdrawals when I don’t drink it, it’s them complaining that I- wait for it- drink it. Whaaat? Because I drink one gallon over the course of about 6-ish days, and they each share two different kinds of tea. They’re upset because I go through the one non-water drink I partake in faster than they do.
These boys, they buy 3 different juices, milk, and 3 different teas. So, naturally, they take much longer to get through them. By the time it’s time to get more groceries, they usually have some of the last containers of each left.
But it’s a problem because since I don’t drink anything else but green tea and water, I’m told I’m addicted and they’re not wanting to enable my addiction.
Let’s be clear, an addict needs whatever they’re addicted to. They go through withdrawals if they don’t have it. They will go above and beyond to get that fix. Me? I don’t whine if we have no tea in the house. I just drink water. I don’t need a variety of juices or teas, because I think juice and certain teas/brands are overly sweet and I don’t like to drink sugar. Hence me not drinking soda.
So, why am I getting the backlash? Because they feel obligated to stock the fridge with more tea? Like holy shit, I’m not the one who buys the buffet of drink selections. But even then, why do I have to get told off about what I drink? It’s tea for crying out loud. Not soda, or alcohol, freaking tea.
I told them I can buy my own tea from now on, and they started backtracking, telling me ‘no, that’s not what we’re saying’. But up until that point it was clear that they were getting tired of buying so much green tea to compensate how much I drink.
Like, I drink two cups of tea a day when we have it. One when I wake up, and one when I come home from work.
And don’t take this rant the wrong way, I’m still going to look into cutting back on how fast I drink it, but dang, getting an organized intervention on drinking green tea? Could the judgement be held until after I die, Please?
Hannah-radical 