milk and no sugar, please

[hatam_soferet]

Hey, here's a tip. When you're refilling your inkwell from the big bottle, and you've taken the bottle over to your desk where awaits the inkwell, do not

- repeat, do not -

squirt the ink into your tea instead of into the inkwell.

Comments

[lethargic_man]

LOL!

[hatam_soferet]

Not lol at all! ;-D

It's like, one's mind is thinking "receptacle containing liquid," and there are two of those in the workspace, and of the two, the tea is the more important, so naturally one heads for that.

[lethargic_man]

Well, it could have been a lot worse: You could have dipped your quill into your tea and started writing on the Torah with it...

[hatam_soferet]

AND YOU THINK YOU'RE JOKING

[lethargic_man]

It would appear you work in a very entertaining profession. (Not entertaining for you, maybe, but entertaining for the rest of us.) :o)

[hatam_soferet]

Oh, it entertains me too, why d'you think I post about it? :)

[zevabe.livejournal.com]

My safrut teacher regaled us with the following tale:

He was mixing up a batch of ink, so his friend asked for some. He sent it over in a coca-cola bottle. The wife of the friend did not realize it was ink and drank it. An entire glass. How she did not realize that it was ink, I am unsure. However, he received a call from poison control to ascertain the ingredients in the ink.

[hatam_soferet]

Coca-cola tastes vile, but ink tastes worse!

Who is your teacher, and where are they based?

[zevabe.livejournal.com]

R' Schneid (hope I'm spelling that right) in Monsey