Quick update for July 1, 2008

This tea boutique is no longer at the location it was last Xmas. It has been replaced by an Asian Bubble tea bar. I am not sure if they went out of business or what. Or if all the unhappy employees drove all the customers and the prosperity gods away to another galaxy. Lets hope these new bubble tea owners have a much better attitude and love seeing customers asking 1 million questions while they are under staffed.

This Christmas take note of what I did and see if you can create your own comedy show

While you shop for a Christmas Present.....

I was in a state of slow gentle mindfulness. I went into a really wonderful tea shop, I can not tell you where because the only you could get there is if you owned a helicopter, the island where this tea shop is is a private island and you could not take a ferry there. Only the locals and the people who fly in can buy tea here. Anyway, I was asking her everything under the sun as I bought the following teas

• What is Poet Warrior tea?
  
• What is black dragon oolong tea?
  
• What is tin quan yum tea, another type of high quality oolong tea?
  
• This laughing buddha which is only 1 inch high, does it come with its own blue velvet box for me to put it in? Will you give me this explaination card of what is the laughing buddha holding up a gold bar? (The store owner said no)
  
• Can you give me a box that will fit all these items in please?
  
• Can you give me a receipt with all the items with the description of the teas right beside the receipt please? (At this point she was yelling at me and saying I can say them to you but you will have to write it down yourself} I said, but I can not, I have a pitched nerve in my right shoulder and I thought that every time you go to a store a receipt is automatically generated by a cash register (She finally said, and looked at her cash register and realized it did spit out a receipt and she reluctantly gave it to me)
  
• (The tea store owner under charged me for my purchases and I told her this is the wrong amount, it cost more than this. So she spit out another visa reciept so I paid for all my purchases)
  

Just to give you some background info, I was in a very small tea store, she had a 30 inch by 30 inch counter space, did I tell you I also asked for a stapler. She raised her voice and told me please bring your stuff to the tea table and do your business there.

I was reading the Shambhala Sun Magazine and I was intially aggitated by her rude ness, but realized that she was trying to serve 5 other customer as she was understaffed and I was invoking the power of Mr. Magoo or mr.maGu, you remember him he is a guy that is blind and talks very slowly and gets into these very funny situations.

In the end I think I got a big laugh out of this in the spirit of Christmas, next time I go into her store I will not ask her any questions and just pay her cash and I am laughing my head off as I write this. I hope you enjoy my connection with the store owner when I bought tea for Daniel Hung. My friend who resides on this island has lots of sympathy for the tea store owner.