Over Afternoon Tea

Tea is not only a drink but a ritual over which people have been relaxing, talking, and catching up on each other's lives for centuries. This blog is intended to serve as a virtual cup of tea, helping me keep in touch with friends and family in my physical absence.

My husband engages pool balls vigorously. In his attempt to collect all of them with the triangle rather than picking any up and putting them in, he sent half the balls I'd collected from the pockets flying back into other pockets.
"You idiot," I chided, laughing.
"I'm not an idiot, I'm a man!" he growled happily, flushed with the pleasures of the chase.
"Yeah, same difference," I replied, in a mood to tease.
"There IS a difference!" he insisted.
"I haven't noticed one."
Finishing his ball-collecting, he crowed triumphantly, "Not all idiots are men!"