[they will have to survive on their ability to enjoy tea fancily while snarking in the meantime...]

I feel it's something everyone should experience at least once so that they may act more quickly to avoid it in the future. [yes make everyone else do the work to keep things from getting boring] I can't say whether or not it's true, but I don't believe the occurrences last April Fool's day should be overlooked or written off, either.

[sometimes he looks at horace and hopes that might have changed since he last looked, but he's never that lucky sadly] While that's a fair point, I feel this is one of those unfortunate situations where its downsides infinitely outnumber anything good that might come of it.