because cups taste OH SO SALTY.

right, being the perfect child that i am, i was unloading the dishwasher. Galia (russian kiddo) comes along, and is oddly eager to help me...

(as i havn't told you before, she is a VERY keen helper, which is sometimes good, but very often somewhat annoying. she likes to but into anything that you're doing, and offer her help... but she tends to wreck things, because she is russian, and everything she does turns to crap)

anyway, i allowed her to give a little-radioactive-helping hand, as afterall, who wouldn't want help unloading the dishwasher?! we'd been unloading the dishwasher for about 2 minutes; i'd given her the tea-cup duty, and she seemed to be doing pretty damn well (considering that in russia she probably has no sink, and they drink out of their cupped hands... well that's what i like to think.) everytime i turned around to check that she wasn't doing anything weird, she seemed to do a cheeky smile, and carry on with her little chore

to be honest with you, this made me a little bit uncomfortable, and panic even more

i knew she was up to something, and GODDAMMIT i was going to find out. oh dear lord, all this russian crap is turning me gradually insane!

every few seconds, i'd hear the 'cling' of her tea cups. i'd spin around, like a ninja, to check what weird shit she was doing... but everytime i span, she seemed to be doing nothing wrong

i turned back, to do my job...

then span to look at her. still nothing. she was doing nothing... all i could think was "what the hell am i going to blog about if she's being a normal, socially acceptable human being?!"

i turned back around and went to pick up a plate from the dishwasher...THEN BAM, i'd lured her into a false sense of security. she thought i wasn't looking. i span round. and i caught her in the act

she had the teacup up near her face...

and she was licking it... full on, licking the entire thing. round the handle, the rim, the inside of it. EVERYTHING

i went over to the teacup rack where she'd put a few cups, and i was not ready for what i was about to see....

there were some soggy cups on that rack, with the saliva of a russian 7 year old

i looked at her

she looked back, with spit around her mouth, grinning.

i will never drink from a mug again

Russia:2 England:0