This morning, I woke up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee. This is a very new and exciting thing, as I only recently purchaced my own coffee maker.
I happily poured my coffee into my travel-mug, added some of the Hazelnut creamer that I am so fond of, and cheerfully trotted to my car.
Ok, that’s a lie. It snowed again, and so there was roughly three inches of snow on the steps, what with last night’s accumulation combining with the 16 freakin’ inches we got on Sunday that continues to blow around.
Additionally, today is recycling, so I was hauling a Heafty 50 Gallon garbage bag full of newspaper that I used while packing. I also have on two and a half inch heeled penny loafers today, as today is my Shakespeare class, where I have a crush on one of my classmates.
After sucessfully making my way down the stairs, coffee intact, I congradulate myself on an amazing display of grace and poise. I then open my car door, brush the snow off that fell onto the driver’s seat, put the coffee cup on the cup holder, start the car, and commence with the snow removal.
I get back in my car after the majority of the snow has been removed from the RiddleMachine, and discover that at some point the stupid coffee cup fell over, filling both cup holders to the brim with coffee, and spilling over to the pen holder, has soaked a couple of my tapes with Hazelnut flavored coffee, and overflowed to the carpeting of the car. This angers me on a number of levels:
- DAMMIT! No coffee!
- DAMMIT! No way of cleaning it up, I’m not going up those Stairs of Death again, and I’m late anyway!
- DAMMIT! My tapes might be ruined!
- DAMMIT! My car is gross now!
- DAMMIT! No coffee!
- DAMMIT! How the hell is it that we can build space stations, but we can’t design ONE coffee cup holder that HOLDS the coffee cup? The car wasn’t even freakin’ in motion!
Has anyone discovered a good store bought alternate to the ridiculous exuses for cup holders that are in American cars these days? My sister’s Mazda has one that you pull out, it’s a loop that suspends the coffee cup. That’s brilliant. Anyone know where I can buy one of a similar design? I’ve seen cheap ones at gas stations that suspend from the car door, but I don’t trust those. I’m desperate, all I want is to be able to travel with beverages. Is that too much to ask?
A little persistance goes a long way. Announcing:
“I go on guilt trips a couple of time a year. Mom books them for me.” A custom made Wally .sig!