Things That Should Exist (Originally Posted 6.26.06)

Really people. If any of you drive cars and drink Starbucks, please leave a comment explaining how you do this without getting coffee *all over you*. Because honestly, I get my coffee a block and a half from my work. I need only walk -- I'm not even driving -- around the corner with my coffee before I arrive at my destination. And at least once per week, I arrive to work with coffee dripping down my arm.

I think I have what I believe is a viscosity problem?? (I had mono for much of the last science class I ever had in my life -- I'd literally fall asleep during class and wake up God knows how much later in an empty room -- so there's a good chance that's not the right word there.) Because yeah. I do the wrap-a-napkin-around-the-cup thing and the pour-some-coffee-in-the-trash thing, but it seems if the rim gets at all wet, it just kind of *conducts* the coffee between the inside and outside of the cup, and once it starts, there's no stopping it. Coffee all over the place.

How has Starbucks not invented some sort of plug to stick in the hole in their lids till you get wherever you're going with your coffee?? That's all I ask. No major feats of engineering or enormous wastes of resources. Just a little plug.

Other things that should exist: A Dunkin Donuts just a little closer to my office. Then Starbucks could go plug-free, and I wouldn't give a damn. My morning coffee would also taste significantly better.

Rar.