Tea

I am British. I cannot stand tea. Why do I feel that I am some sort of pariah due to those two statements appearing mutually exclusive? I have been given three cups of tea in my life which I have drunk for politeness only. If you refuse a "nice cup of tea" it is almost seen as a stab to the heart of your host, you may as well have kicked them in the genitalia and crapped on their floor.

I don't even like the smell of tea - in Tesco the other evening (yes I really know how to live it up), the tea aisle smelt horrible, just because somewhere down there a bag had split.

The rest of the country seems to function on tea, there are numerous people who cannot face the world without tea in the morning, and at every break they can imagine. Other people can't face the world without soft or hard drugs - they are pitied or criminalised. Should we not do the same for the tea-drinking majority?

I'm off for a can of Coke.