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Too much lemon in my Tweet T.E.A.

By Dusty Plunkett
The Times-Journal

Published April 17, 2009

Have we all lost our minds America? Can someone please explain to me why we are throwing perfectly good tea into the creek in 2009?

Unless your next move is to dump a few barrels of Splenda and about 1,000 lemon wedges into the water in hopes of making the world’s first lazy sweet tea river then I would say there is a flaw in your plan.

These are tough economic times for everyone. The last thing we need to do is throw away the main ingredient to one of the most refreshing beverages known to mankind.

I’ll bet when you are mowing the yard this weekend you’ll be wishing you had your tea back. Well, I hope your mouth stays parched.

I have no qualms about the point you were trying to make. All I’m saying is you need to think of a better way to make that point next time.

You think Washington D.C. cares that you threw away your tea? The only tea most of the people in Washington ever see comes in a glass bottle that has Lipton printed across the label.

Unless they’ve actually waited on water to boil just so they can drop in that tiny white bag which is clamped to the edge of the pot with a clothespin, they just won’t understand.

The only people you are hurting with these actions are people like me. I appreciate the tea. And now it’s gone. You threw it in the creek.

So how does that help your tax situation?

Here’s an idea. How about next year, just don’t pay your taxes. I’m not really sure what will happen if you don’t, but I’ll bet it will leave you preoccupied enough to where you won’t have time to throw any more tea away.

Maybe you don’t want to go to those extremes or maybe you just like throwing things into bodies of water.

Throw your Blackberry in the creek next time. That should make a bigger splash, both literally and figuratively.

Can you imagine no more Blackberries? Our country’s infrastructure as we know it would come to a grinding halt. Washington D.C. would have to pay attention then.

Plus, a nation without Blackberries means no more on the go spur of the moment spreading of ridiculous ideas via Twitter, and I bet you a gallon of Milo’s that is probably where this crazy Tax Day T.E.A. party thing started.

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