I'm starting to dislike Starbucks. Don't get me wrong, I love their burnt coffee, it's like crack. It's their cups and lids that really turn me off.
I understand they use paper cups to be environmentally conscious. (Whatever, I don't care.) But the seam on the paper cup does not fit well with the lid, so wherever the seam meets the lid, coffee inevitably leaks and spills down the side of the cup. Annoying.
But these plastic lids are a problem themselves already. Each lid has a rasied top and a built in hole, which does not work in car cup holders. Go over a bump, and coffee comes spouting out of the hole, like a little whale blowhole. Super annoying.
So I thought I had the cups all figured out. I put a napkin in the hole and drape it around the lid, hoping to catch all leaking coffee. Sometimes this works, but this morning was a disaster. Starbucks isn't even five minutes from work, and by the time I got to the parking lot, the napkin was soaked through and dripping and coffee was coming out at the seam. And it's not that bumpy of a ride. I had to wipe coffee off the leather gearshift boot. I was not pleased.
So, as I sit here, and glare at my coffee-stained white Starbucks grande paper cup and lid, I wonder, is this their way to get me to buy one of their overpriced, cheaply made (ask Amy how cheap) travel mugs that probably won't fit in my funky, poorly placed VW cupholder?
F THAT. Sometimes I wonder why I bother straying from Dunkin' Donuts and all its unabashedly cheap Styrofoam goodness.