| abstract | - Reading to a tea-leaf is a method of Tea preparation. Eventually the tea will be able to read all by itself, and possibly get a good job as a librarian or a historian. Teaching a tea leaf to read generally takes two to three years, but for some of the simpler species (such as English Breakfast) teaching time can take up to 6 years. Reading to tea-leaves in groups of 100 or more is common, however, groups larger than 1000 often cause clumping and it is difficult to get any sense out of them at all. The major difficulty involved in tea-leaf reading is to get the little buggers to listen. They get easily distracted, and (much like Gremlins) if there is water anywhere near them, all they do is sit and steep. Allowing your tea-leaves to steep for too long is not recommended, because they grow too weak and grow tired (unlike Gremlins). Critics of Tea-leaf reading are usually misinformed twits.
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