I’ve been sitting in a tea shop for 6 hours.
My office is about an hour south of the CBD, so I tend to meet people in tea shops. Today, and most of tomorrow, I’ll be here.
Here I am, hard at work.
Note the enormous quantities of tea behind me.
So far I have conducted a bunch of meetings. I have also enjoyed a fine Assam, a Darjeeling Red Thunder, a Golden Chun Mai, a green Chun Mee, a Keemun Mao Feng and one of those black Chinese compressed tea hearts.
As I ponder my remaining meeting – and the last tea I will order (free, after actually filling a loyalty card in one day) , I wonder about this:
Why do you have an office? Why are you not all here? What is the point in conducting any business anywhere but a tea shop?
I have no answer to that.
But I do think I’ll have a Lychee Oolong.
Great question. Why do people go to offices at all when they could conduct their business in tea shops?
Of course, now I’m imagining all the ridiculous jobs that couldn’t be done in that setting.
A guy setting up to do a bit of welding in the corner.
A lady of the evening meeting her new client in a public place.
A teacher taking a class of schoolchildren to occupy all the remaining tables.
That really wasn’t your point, was it?
If the welder was quiet and the “lady of the night” discreet I don’t see why not.
The schoolkids can go elsewhere. There are a lot of breakables in there.
If only I could do business that way.
You drank a green tea? Was that one of these trick statements you put in to see if we’re truly reading every word? I thought you don’t drink green tea my dear man? Either way, an interesting list you’ve got there.
As to conducting business in a tea shop, delightful as it may be, doesn’t it get a little costly? I’m glad cuppa 101 was free! 😉
One more question, what is “CBD”?
It was nice you included a pic of yourself with all that tea. Smart shirt I say!
J.
I LOVE green tea as well as black and the odd oolong. It’s JAPANESE green tea I generally hate. Or japanese tea of any colour; the exception being iced green sencha with sugar syrup at Thip Coffee in Phuket.
Every tenth cup was free. Over two days I consumed 17 cups including two free ones and bought 5 for my clients/candidates. So at $4 a cup or $6 a pot I must have spent $100. Is that too much?
Tailor made shirt from Thailand! Cheap-Cheap, as the locals say. Pretty chuffed about it.
And finally, “Central Business District”