Try this
- Decide whether making the drink is shared or whether either person can join with their own.
- Choose a comfortable place and an approximate duration. Keep silence and leaving early available so the pause stays easy to use.
A worked example
“Tea can be our ten-minute pause, without a question to answer.”
An invented example to adapt, not a real exchange or a script you have to follow.
Before you leave it here
Allow either person to join later or skip without explaining.