Definition: Tea Towel

tea towel n. A cloth for drying dishes; a dishtowel.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition


A relatively simple tool, used to drying things with which you use to eat. Things that will no doubt, in some way or another will come in contact with your mouth.
With that in mind, would you think someone would say, drop a tea towel on the floor and then put it back up to be used (or for a change not, and just leave it laying
there)? Or perhaps even wipe up food dropped on the floor and then put it back up where it belongs? Until recently, I've not had the pleasure of meeting anyone
who would do such a thing. It's quite horrible, to reach for a tea towel to dry a plate and find that it is actually dirtier than the bottom of a shoe. Essentially everytime
I use the kitchen, I bring out a fresh tea towel because I can not trust the cleanliness of the existing towel. I have, until recently, been the only one in the past 4
months to wash the tea towels.

Today's reason why my flatmate pisses me off;

Using tea towels to wipe the floor (and god knows what else), and then returning them back to the handle of the oven to be used unsuspectingly by others.

posted originaly at 1/22/2005 07:16:40 AM