Donated by a lodging house that kept its guest book in steam instead of ink.
The Kettle That Brews the Weather of Past Visits
An enamel kettle records the weather outside each time a visitor was offered tea. When boiled, it releases a small cloud of that afternoon into the room, along with the smell of wet coats drying by the door.
Quiet refusalVisits without weather
Linked outcome
The kettle stays cold
Nothing boils. For a while afterwards, your visitors arrive in perfectly ordinary weather and leave before the rain, and none of them can say later what the sky was doing while you talked.