Shameless plug
I’ve been a fan of starbucks for a while. The coffee is good, and it’s actually pretty cheap if you don’t get the silly flowery drinks with more than 12 words in the name. The only bad thing was the lids on their cups. McDonalds had a lids with some sort of way to keep the thing closed so it didn’t spill all over the place. Hell even my Caffeine-Miser brand BadCoffee(tm) at work has cups with little tear-off lids. Starbucks was a little behind the ball on this, their drinks would spout red hot streamers of coffee all over the place if you hit so much as a pebble. It was as if they were engineered to do this. Everyone seemed to have a little ritual to stop the mess. I used to just drape a napkin over the top till I got to work. Other people would stuff straws in the cups. Other still would even use 2 lids rotated against eachother. Any solution still ended up messy.
Today I saw they finally worked out a solution. You’d think they would just make lids with little reseal widgets like Dunkins has. I guess that was too easy. Instead they have little toothpick-like things that you plug up the sippy-hole with. 10/10 for effort, 4/10 for promptness, 2/10 for good thinking. Still, it’s great to not have the stuff spill all over the cupholder on the super-smooth roads of Rt.9 here in Mass.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
This is why I have a coffee thermos with a screw on cap. I don’t want to use whatever shit they’ll give you for free.
I always end up breaking thermoses. even stainless steel ones. don’t ask how, I’m pretty impressed I can do it too.
Arg – so when you take it out, you have to put it in your pocket? When you sip in the car, the plug ends up on the dashboard?
it’s on this toothpick-like thing, so I’m guessing you’re meant to stab it in the cap or something. I count that in the 2/10 for good thinking. At least it’s something, I usually dont sip it till I get to work anyways since my tongue isnt made of asbestos (yet… working on this one)
man, now there’s a pick up line: “You look hot. Fortunately, I have an asbestos tongue.”
i want to try their pike roast coffee..but i want it caffeinated and well… so im waiting. although, when i was first pregnant (and had horrible morning sickness back in “winter”) i lived off of their gingerbread and peppermint mocha lattes. it helped with the nausea.
now…i am constantly craving caramel frapps 😀
omfg wow…….no. They need to engineer something a bit more sensible.
Hey, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, kiddo!!! Please have an awesome day, k? 😀 It IS a friday birthday, after all. No excuse for not enjoying a full night of birthday fun 🙂
Hey, check your Facebook, I’ve posted pics of…. dun dun dun BABY ELIZABETH! Yup, we had the babykins. I haven’t had time to post the birth story yet, but I have posted a ton of pics on FB.
Love you! BYE!
*crazy person runs off*
So this little birdy told me you’re a year older today…just wanted to wish you a happy one!!! Hope it’s a spectacular day!