Tea and Cookies

Flash Fiction

Tea and Cookies

My teabag broke! I didn’t know until I took a large sip. I’d been waiting all morning to sit down and have a lovely cup of tea with the last bunch of cookies. I’d hidden the cookies so I’d have some… I planned to make more later this morning so there would be new cookies when the kids got home from the first day of school!

As much as I love tea, I immediately spit it out! Was it seeds? Or something ground up in a tea bag? I didn’t know, this never happened before, I just knew it leaked out in a cloud of whatever it is, and I got a mouthful. Whatever it was, was way too much in one sip! I spit it out, unfortunately spewing it all over my little stash of cookies… This was not the restful tea break I had planned for when they finally rode off to school on the school bus… It had been a long summer.

I cleaned it up quickly, heated more water and grabbed some potato chips, a clean cup, and the box of tea bags. I was determined to enjoy this moment!

Well, all that was left in the tea bag box was one more, and that one was also broken, just like the other one. Even a rubber band couldn’t fix it. But I wanted my tea!! I dreamed about this day when they would finally go back to school, and I could have a quiet moment of my own after John went to work, and they left for school. No “Honey” or “Mom” questions, and requirement for me to be involved, just plain old me, and my cup of tea!

So, I got in the car and drove to Winkleton’s… Tea and cookies it was!