You “correct” your wife on how she should follow your compulsions about trivia and she doesn’t tear out your lungs for throw pillows? I admire her forbearance: if I lectured my wife on how to use a cup like she was three years old, I’d be fishing for my own pancreas in my baby cup, and I’d richly deserve it.
Does “T-Cups” stand for Tervis cups? Is the op related to the Florida company in some way?
The op’s initial claim that “most of America” drinks from this obscure overpriced tumbler at work while in fact I think most have never heard of the brand and if they happen to own one, buried deep in some cabinet, have it as a silly souvenir or given as promotional item by a company they patronize or work for, is so odd as to make wonder.
Which is why I use straws with mine =) I had bought a case of 10 inch straws to use with them, I use the largest volume Tervis cup, both for the thermal qualities and because if tipped they won’t spill liquid as fast, so my computer tends to be safer from spills. And I put the lid on willy nilly =)
I’ve just learned that they’ve opened a Tervis store locally, in the French Quarter, about a year-and-a-half ago. Getting the impression that the Tervis brand, specifically, is becoming a niche upmarket version of a product that has been around forever (plastic tumblers). Judging by photos of the French Quarter store and customers therein, there does seem to be considerable “hipster” appeal.
Someone upthread said they had never heard of Yeti cups. The Yeti company is a lot newer than Tervis – Yeti was founded in 2006 and started off selling upmarket metal ice chests to well-heeled hunters and fisherman in Texas and surrounding states.
Woah, thanks for the tip!
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I’ve never heard of a Tervis cup either, and rarely seen one being used in the wild. I generally find it interesting to learn about something that is so well-known by one group and unheard of by others, however, so thanks for this thread. It looks like a nice cup, though. Now I want one to use at home.
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I, too, was highly amused by the thought of someone using a Camelbak at work in an office. I know they make regular water bottles, having owned a couple myself, but in my experience, the thing you refer to as a “Camelbak” is always a pouch on your back. A water bottle made by Camelbak would just be called a water bottle. YMMV, of course.
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If you like your cold stuff to stay cold, you want aTakeya Thermoflask. This thing is unbelievable. I’ve found ice in there 24 hours after I put it in! I can refill the water multiple times without having to put new ice in. The lid design is fantastic too, and the whole thing is easy to clean. I bought a 2-pack at Costco this fall and went back and bought the rest they had so I could share the joy at Christmastime. I kept a few so I would have a stash in case mine was ever lost or wore out, such is my devotion.
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Never heard the name ‘Tervis’ before seeing this thread title.
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I don’t use one. Neither does my wife.
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At work, I drink cold beverages from a travel mug, and coffee from a standard coffee cup. At home, I drink cold beverages from a glass. Made of glass, not plastic.
I rarely use my lid and did not even know I had a Tervis cup.
I have 4 Tervis tumblers. Three at home and one at work. I use a lid only on the work one and have never paid attention to which way the Fighting Illini orange I faces.
I can tell you right away that the brand is a national brand, so it has nothing to do with region or state or anything like that.
Thinking back at previous work environments, I believe most people referred to it as their “cup”, and not necessarily “Tervis” (i.e. “have you seen my cup around?” versus “where is my Tervis?”). But I also would think if you asked those same people who made the cup, a majority would say Tervis.
It could be an age thing. At 31, I’m not old by any means, but I’m not young either. I did mention earlier upthread that I’ve seen them become bigger in recent years. I first began noticing them in college (04-08) and saw them grow in various office environments and in grad school since then. I’m going off of college and office/cubicle-type environments where I see them.
Once again, the perceived seriousness of the subject is beyond comical. I hardly “corrected” anyone and the fact that you likened my stupid comment to a “lecture” is even more beyond comical than the phrase “beyond comical”.
Ha, I didn’t think about my username when creating the thread, but I guess they do match up pretty well. No, my username is based off a college nickname and has nothing to do with the brand.
The cups themselves (at least, that TYPE of cup) are certainly available nationally. Tervis, the company, has been around for 70 years, so they’ve got a long history. What I meant was that calling that type of cup a “Tervis” might be a regional usage – not that Tervis-brand cups were only available regionally.
I’m curious about how long Tervis has been opening dedicated stores for selling their cups, both in malls and standalone. The popularity of the cups has perhaps been rising hand-in-hand with the opening of Tervis stores?
Whenever I’ve seen Tervis or Tervis-type tumblers for sale in the past, it’s usually been in places that sell sports-fan merchandise. That runs the gamut from big-box WalMart & Target, to college bookstores, stadium/arena gift shops, and even smaller boutique retailers.
This could very well be true.
Perceived seriousness is brought about by the seriousness of which the OP presented the topic.
“Hardly correcting” is still correcting.
To which I say there was no indication that this was a serious topic. The topic subject in and of itself isn’t serious. It’s how to put a lid on a drinking device for Chrissakes.
Another good example of focusing on pedantry and extrapolating it to way too much of an extreme, but I’ll rephrase: I hardly call what I said a correction at all.
I’ll say it yet again, the seriousness of this topic, and the attitude to which I have about it is less “Should gay people get married” and more “Great taste or less filling”
To which I say there was no indication that this was a silly topic.
Yet you chose to use these words.
If you don’t consider what you did to be correcting someone then why did you say, “correct her”?
I have a 9 year old 7-11 Super Big Gulp cup I reuse. Every now and again, I spray it inside and out with shellac. Hot drinks taste a little bit like shellac, cold drinks are fine. I glued a dead frog to the outside sometime around around August 2013, purely for decoration. Frog always faces out.
So when you said that “most of America” drinks out of a Tervis cup while at work, that you “made sure to correct” your wife by putting the spout of the lid on the same side as the logo, and “told her that she needs to do it” that way, that you do it that way because the label is your “favorite thing,” and that “you choose your Tervis design specifically because it’s something you like and want to show it off,” you were being tongue-in-cheek? OK, but nothing you said in those posts gave any indication of that. You’re the one who made it sound like where the label goes is a matter of life and death, and the responses have been to the effect of “how come you think something so trivial is a matter of life and death?”
I just assumed the overall subject manner of the topic was trivial enough that it wouldn’t even be an issue.
Lesson learned I guess