I’ve got one of those coffee cups with the sliding sippy lids, designed to keep you from doing a Stella Liebeck while driving. I mostly use it to make sure I don’t dump a cuppa joe on my computer by accident. For that, the lid works fine. It keeps the coffee inside unless it’s been clicked open. There’s even little air hole in the lid, cause you just can’t get the coffee out well unless there’s air flowing in to replace the caffeine that’s being sucked out, right? It clicks open when the lid is open, so there shouldn’t be a problem.
But there is.
The little air hole is spaced exactly the same distance from the coffee hole as my mouth is from the tip of my nose. So sometimes when I’m trying to drink, the cup sucks onto the tip of my nose. This prevents air from going into the cup, and keeps me from getting my coffee.
This is bad.
The solution is fairly simple. I need to tip my head back more while drinking. Unfortunately, this makes the cup useless for drinking coffee safely while driving. Sure, you won’t get a scalded lap, but staring out the sunroof is generally a bad idea while on the road.