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I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. (sopuli.xyz)
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Wtf do I do? I'm only here for one night thank fuck but it's still very hard.

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[โ€“] Lumidaub@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I THINK they may be exaggerating, for effect and self-deprecation. They may have been looking forward to the ritual of preparing tea and having a cuppa as a bit of normalcy at the end of a day of travelling and not even that very simple ritual is possible in its usual form.

[โ€“] remon@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fair. But it still beats having to boil water in a pot on a stove!