Those tea party packets!
Do you remember an era where tea parties were common? Retirements, births, new homes, transfers....all used to be celebrated with "tea parties". Tea/Coffee, plus a pack of snacks - carboard boxes with butter paper inside it, that contains one sweet snack, one salty snack and 2 biscuits - that used to be a standard for any party. Rather, that used to be THE TREAT. Haven't come across a "tea party" for years now, because we in IT world become a little extravagant - small celebrations are over juices & ice creams, while bigger ones are mostly over lunches and dinners! Once upon a time, I used to wait for my mother to return from office, because if I was lucky enough, someone would have celebrated something at her office, and I would have a share of that - a tea party box at least half the share. If am luckier, I would have the whole of it. It was always a surprise, and both me and my mother wanted that to be a surprise. For once she made it a regular practice, ...