How Not To Make Tea

I made two major errors when making a pot of tea just now. For me, that's a big slip. I pride myself on my teamaking finesse.

My second mistake lay in forgetting to put the tea in in between warming the pot and adding the boiling water. But I like to think that it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't been distracted by my first mistake, which was accidentally overfilling the kettle so that it spurted boiling water out of the spout.

And all over an electrical socket.