No More Sugar Thanks, I'm Sweet Enough

Last night we gathered at Marion's home for our weekly Monday night English Bible study. As usual there was a whole table full of food for us to munch on, as well as what has become my favorite kind of tea here, green tea with lemon and ginger. I poured myself a cup and reached over for the sugar, as usual. Marion has this cool container for her sugar that pours it out one teaspoon at a time. So I casually tipped it over above my cup, as I had done so many times before and much to my surprise the lid came off and approximately one cup of sugar landed in my cup and on the surrounding area, including my feet (my cup was at the edge of the table). It was like that trick when you unscrew the lid of the salt shaker and then watch as the next unsuspecting diner ends up with a little lunch with their salt instead of the other way around. But this time nobody had rigged the sugar "shaker"! It was my own doing and all that could be done was to laugh and get out the vacuum, while apologizing profusely to Marion for wasting all her precious sugar...Germans hate wasting things! Yikes... I was sure not to waste the "tea" (or liquid sugar) and drank it down as best I could. It reminded me of some of that "sweet tea" I had while living in Oklahoma ...they say it's not sweet enough if you can't actually SEE the sugar through the glass. Oh I could see it last night...and I was really alert for that study (I've never thought so clearly-!).