English Mithai at work

So imagine this:

You are at the office, working away, when a co-worker steps in, casually produces a BIG box of mithai with as much variety as possible, places it on a centre table and just walks away with the words, 'Here you go guys! Enjoy!'

The above scenario can of course, never happen. You CANNOT have mithai without a reason for it (an engagement, Eid, a new baby etc.)

The same way, you CANNOT have biscuits in dear old England and NOT have a reason for them.

I had a huge tin of biscuits at home. After failing (miserably) to stay away from it (and gorging down about 15 biscuits) I realized I had to redeem myself by sharing the sugar high with the world (or risk gorging down the remaining 30 and be cursed by the gods of perpetual weight gain) (that is so me isn't it? Trying to get Karma to help me lose weight instead of actually getting off my lazy behind to make an actual effort!)

Anyways, for the redemption to continue, I decided to bring the box in to work with me the next day...
And I actually had to tape a 'Please help yourself :)' message to it as every other question was, 'but why...?'

Me: "Oh Hi, I got in these biscuits..."
Them: "But why.....?"
Me: "<Insert full emotional confession here about gorging down biscuits while watching Family Guy at 11:00 PM>"
 Them: ".....Ta mate!"

I do realise how equally weird it would be if I walked in a box of mithai, and my Pakistani co-workers don't ask me why!

So lesson learned: Fancy biscuits = English Mithai (Respect and follow same protocol as followed with mithai)

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