The amount of attention paid to a gas burner on which one is making tea is inversely proportional to the amount of heating received by the cooking pot.
Simply put: Paying attention to a gas burner leads to no heat reaching the vessel.
Corollary to the Law of Burner Attention: When you look away for one split second, the tea on the burner boils over.
One day, when there was nothing to do, I went to the grocer’s shop and asked the young lad behind the counter to give me 24 teaspoons of sugar, just for the heck of it.
The lad looked at me from head to toe, then weighed 200 grams of sugar and gave it to me.
I was puzzled, so I said_ “I asked for 24 teaspoons, didn’t I?
Lad: Yes sir, you did. And believe me, this will be 24 teaspoons.
Me: How are you so sure?
Lad: My father has measured 1 kg, and it came to 120 teaspoons. So the 200 grams that I gave you will be 24 teaspoons.
