"Well why don't you bring your own mug in?" said someone, cleverly holding theirs up so that I could see it.
I'd been boring the team again about my 29% heat loss theory from the new mugs.
"Um...good idea," I said, and sat down.
You know sometimes I can be really negative when the simplest of solutions is just one thought around the corner.
Why is that? It's like a bit of common sense is missing from my brain. Is it an engineering thing? I mean you hear stories of science boffins who can solve complex differential equations but can't do up their shoelaces. Then there was the story of the NASA geniuses who designed a ball-point pen that would work perfectly in zero gravity, while the Russians just took pencils. It's fair to say I'm not a NASA genius... but then I'm no cosmonaut either.
Maybe I just like a whinge sometimes? I hope it's not that, I don't want to be that guy - and actually, on the whole, I think I let a whole lot of things just pass me by that other people get furious about.
Sometimes though, the problem clouds over the solution and we completely forget that there is an answer, hiding away in the fog.
This is another reason why I really love teamwork. When all I can see is a problem, I need people around me who are problem solvers - and they need me to... well, do whatever it is that I do, write about it... I guess.
"It lasts for three hours," said Dimitrios, stirring a tea bag into his very own gleaming flask of hot water. My eyes were wide. I shook my head in wonder and took a sip of the tea that I'd made shortly before launching into my science-based heat-loss-calculation-mug-dynamics rant.
It was cold.
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