On Demure Drinking.

You know, it’s only recently that I’ve noticed how many people look like they’re trying to eat the mug when they’re drinking hot drinks. They shove as much of it as possible into their oversized mouths and indulge in the act of excessive gulping while part of their necks rise and fall in time with their lower jaws. It’s disgusting. How can a world which produces such creatures possibly expect me to be a part of it?

Whatever happened to the days when we were taught that hot drinks should be sipped demurely, with only the minimum of necessary physical communion between lip and cup? If my mother and sophisticated Chinese ladies know that, why doesn’t everybody?