I'm amongst friends right?

[zazen999]

As I'm covering Reception at the moment (for various reasons - redunancies, end of my project, receptionist on maternity leave) I have to make tea/coffee for the MD, Marketing Manager and Financial Director every day, and all the refreshments for meetings (internal and client ones).

I can carry my tray for miles round the building, going up and down stairs, through doors, answering the walkabout phone, all without a single wobble or clink of china...until I get into the room I'm delivering to...then it all goes to pot and my calm, efficient fascade goes out the window and I shake like a leaf, worrying that I'm going to make a mess of things in front of important people. Luckily we have big insulated thermos jugs for the tea and coffee, so sloppage is kept to a minimum, but shakey tea cups make such a racket!

We all understand how you feel big fella. There is nothing worse than worrying about what other people might be thinking of you, we just have to try to block it out as best we can, and remember that other people are feeling just the same. You are not alone.

PB xx

Becki: statistically - 25% of those 'important people' still have yesterday's pants on.




Not so important now, are they?

[HeyWayne]

...seems there are a few of us here with the same affliction, but no-one else has mentioned the mad twitch thing! I wonder if that's me being so anxious when I'm carrying stuff that my muscles are tense and 'ready to fire'.

Funny you mention the "twitch" because it's that exact action I put down to my "situation" having started. I was on a company trip to Sweden and after a days "team building" we'd sat down for a beer and the dude next to me had a "twitch" which resulted in him "throwing" his beer over the dude next to him. Up to that point I'd never had the same thing happen to me - but at breakfast the following morning I could not hold my cup of tea - I had to hold it with both hands, and drank from the cup inches from the table.

I'm sure it was like some kind of karma curse for laughing at the other dude.

From what I remember you have a bad back Wayne. My missus also has a bad back and she shakes whilst holding a cup............it's purely down to her medication. If she stops taking the tablets her back pains like hell..........but she stops shaking!

Luckily I'm not on medication permanently - but I can see your thinking.

I've looked at a few of the drinking cups we've bought for Bean and thought to myself.......

Naah! That's just too daft!

[Incy]

Lol Wayne. Did it occur to you that the shaking the next morning could have been due to the alcohol the night before

[HeyWayne]

Lol Wayne. Did it occur to you that the shaking the next morning could have been due to the alcohol the night before

For it still to be happening 12 years on...

[Incy]

you have a point there....

[di]

Becki: statistically - 25% of those 'important people' still have yesterday's pants on.




Not so important now, are they?

and the other 75% their wive's!!!


Wayne,our carpet is testament to the fact that I shouldn't really attempt more than the one cup...and maybe not fill it quite so!

[Pumpkin Becki]

Becki: statistically - 25% of those 'important people' still have yesterday's pants on.




Not so important now, are they?

Errr eeuuwww!!! and you're dead right, I'm the one with 'Controller' in my job title, not them!!

[HeyWayne]

Wayne,our carpet is testament to the fact that I shouldn't really attempt more than the one cup...and maybe not fill it quite so!

Maybe those 70's carpets were more functional than I realised...

Wouldn't mind, but we've hard floor downstairs. The down side is that we've cream carpet on the stairs and entire upstairs ('cept bathrooms).

Do they do Tommy Tippee for adults?

[Incy]

Maybe you should restrict drinks to downstairs.
Cream carpets with a Bean?......You may live to regret that choice

[Rhona]

Do they do Tommy Tippee for adults?

At a firm sometime ago, I had a habit of putting my water glass in a place where I would routinely knock it over when reaching for something (yes, eventually I moved its position).

My office was next to my boss and he frequently heard "Oh cr*p, and then the sound of footsteps running to the kitchen for a teatowel. I got a toddler sippy cup from him that Christmas.

[di]

Maybe those 70's carpets were more functional than I realised...

Wouldn't mind, but we've hard floor downstairs. The down side is that we've cream carpet on the stairs and entire upstairs ('cept bathrooms).

Do they do Tommy Tippee for adults?

Our neighbours have got a pretty mad carpet...never liked it much,til I saw how many drinks get spilt in their house yet absolutely no evidence!

You can get HSM flask things,with a doey up nozzle thing.(they also do them for boys...more Ben 10)

[HeyWayne]

Maybe you should restrict drinks to downstairs.
Cream carpets with a Bean?......You may live to regret that choice

Carpets were laid when we moved in 4 years ago - Bean wasn't even a twinkle in his daddies eye back then.

[Incy]

Thought as much.
By the way there are lid cups for adults out there.
Try this site
They even just do spouts...

[dogsbody]

OK, has everyone afflicted been checked over by the local quack? I ask because I have recently been through the mill - GP, MRI and Neurosurgeon for pain / pins needles / numbeness and it turned out to be compressed vertebral discs (thankfully better now). So all I would say is don't ignore it (and get better soon)

[TPeers]

As a 'cool' answer for just yourself at work have you thought of one of those lidded themos mugs of the type meant for in car or garden use? They have a lid and are very spill resistant.

As for the pub - I'm less help. I have worked a milk round and run a bar but so far - touch wood - I can carry a glass or three safely.

I think you should go and talk to your quack and see if this is a nerve disorder or some such - these things do happen. won't cure the problem but at least you will have an answer and a reason to offer people if accidents happen.