Fail: a step-by-step guide

[highlyeccentric]

FAIL:

Step 1: Amy brings in plunger, and coffee!
Step 2: Amy goes to make coffee
Step 3: Amy discovers that she's brought in the household stash of leaf tea instead of coffee
Step 4: Amy makes tea in plunger
Step 5: Amy discovers that the plunger falls apart when called upon to plunge things.

Comments

[cursor_mundi]

...moment of cultural mismatch. You say "plunger" and I think "rubber thing used to unplug stopped-up toilets," so, it is a good thing that Google is available to me and I am able to realize that you mean a French press or something of the like before I make an unbearably shocked comment. :D

In other ideas -- can you let the leaves brew your tea in the carafe and then just, hmm, empty it into another container to prevent things from getting bitter?

[highlyeccentric]

I think the carafe permanently tastes of coffee, because the tea tastes SO WEIRD. Fortunately I have teabags, but -fail-.

[cursor_mundi]

On all fronts, yes. At least you have bags, though! Would be worse if you were utterly deprived.

[holyschist]

I was also very confused.

[be_themoon]

Same second of cultural 'wait, what?' as cursor_mundi, but :/ that is not cool of the plunger!

[liseuse]

I also had the cultural "umm ... what?" reaction.

[monksandbones]

I went straight from "plunger" to "French press," but it might help that I'd call the... squishing mechanism in the French press a plunger.

Also, tea in a coffee-container, D: D: D:!