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I do like their hot tea. It isn’t (or wasn’t when I was going) the usual Awake! teabags - they’d moved to these…bespoke is the best way I can say it, teabags that were pyramid bags, but about twice the size of a PG Tips bag, and you got two.
I used to stop at a SB twice a week when I was going into the office those days to get it, but I had to stop and go to a different SB.
Why? Because the woman working the morning shift at SB used to annoy the crap out of me. My assumption was she’d just recently reentered the job market, because she was older, maybe 40ish, but had that annoying enthusiasm and cheerfulness a new worker who’s about 16 has, and I just couldn’t deal with that at 7 in the AM.
Twice a week, every week, I’d stop in, get the same order, and you’d think she would have recognized me after a while, but every single time, she’d give me my tea and say, “Let that steep fer five minutes, but don’ throw those teabags out after that - those’re made fer a second steepin’, so when ya get ta work, ya can have another cup!”
Every time. Every

time for about three months.