A lot of days, I take in some tea, often herbal, to my new job at the (Irish-y) burger joint on the first floor of a historic hotel, and I do so in a ceramic-and-rubber-sleeved coffee holder cup that I think was a gift years ago from the one resthome that I used to work at.
I do this because I discovered that the air in that old building is dry “as f*ck,” as the kids say, and that if I don’t hydrate before and during my job, the air dries out my sinuses and seriously f*cks with me, even to the point of tipping my system over into developing another sinus infection.
Anyhow, I usually start off the tea with water that I boil at home, and then when I’m there, I usually refill it once or twice, mostly with scalding-hot water from the espresso-maker by the specialty coffee station, ever since the hot water nozzle on the coffee machine in "the server alley" there somehow got broken and then never fixed.
Anyhow, after doing that over the course of several weeks, I suddenly noticed that my ceramic cup looks gleaming white and almost brand new inside, apart from maybe some mild discoloration up towards the drinking-edge of the mug where water never touches or sits for any length of time.
That extremely hot water must have scalded off the tea-stains!
That must be it, I suspect.
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