We whiners don’t go there, why would we. Never have! Still have a right to an opinion. Drink your heart out at Starbucks, see if we care. Just make sure your lid is securely fastened.
tea business and let government provide our coffee and tea. Those nasty private coffee providers have been screwing voters for years by serving hot drinks that burn citizens indescriminately!!!!
We will never get hot/medium/tepid drinks at the right temperature and the coffee providers are making millions for their CEO’s off the backs/tongues/palates of taxpayers. Time for government coffee kiosks to solve our liquid temperature problems once and for all. Oh, and while we’re at it, lets governmentalize insurance too.
I don’t go there either and I really wasn’t thinking about you when I posted under “cure…”. It’s the people that do go there & whine about it. They should vote with their feet & wallets.
You know… embarassing story but when I was a very young man I was eating a bowl of chicken noodle soup in front of my grandmother’s TV from one of those flimsy TV trays every grandmother had back in the day.
Well, you can see where this is going…
I spilled the soup into my lap. My legs were badly scarred (and remained that way until highschool – at least).
Guess who I sued? My grandmother? Campbells soup? K-Mart (where the TV trays probably came from)? Whatever low-rent company made the TV trays?
Noone. Nope… I didn’t need a PI attorney, didn’t need an accountant and a Brink’s truck.
I think I got a bowl of ice cream as a pay-off from my grandmother to not tell my mom. That’s all this guy deserves… a hug and a bowl of ice cream from the Starbucks people.
I am not a big fan of Starbucks, but as long as we have attorneys that take these cases and judges that award them, they will be around! After all, they make money off of these cases.
Anyone remember the fold out handles that used to be on paper cups?? Maybe they could go back to those and have a completely closed lid with a straw that you have to suck on to get at the contents. It could be filled like syringe bottles & you could hold it in your teeth!
….or something like that. Nah, this yahoo would probably find a way to defeat it anyway & whine to the suit pants judge.
Dear Nobody Important: while not a totally bad idea, it treats the symptom and not the cause. You can’t “idiot proof” everything in the world. Why is it so important to have coffee while driving a car? It’s dangerous and as you point out, it always spills. There’s nothing wrong with the current cups as long as you don’g grab them around the top. That’s the weakest point and it causees the cup to collapse. When you pick it up at the middle or lower there’s no probelm. Regardles of the cup, there are those idiots who will find a way to spill it. Retailers contingue to play this checker game with consumers. It would serve people right if they were required to sign a waiver of liability and acknowledge an assumption of risk for any hotl liquit.
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Or can we just keep them from reproducing?
We whiners don’t go there, why would we. Never have! Still have a right to an opinion. Drink your heart out at Starbucks, see if we care. Just make sure your lid is securely fastened.
tea business and let government provide our coffee and tea. Those nasty private coffee providers have been screwing voters for years by serving hot drinks that burn citizens indescriminately!!!!
We will never get hot/medium/tepid drinks at the right temperature and the coffee providers are making millions for their CEO’s off the backs/tongues/palates of taxpayers. Time for government coffee kiosks to solve our liquid temperature problems once and for all. Oh, and while we’re at it, lets governmentalize insurance too.
Kramer blazed this trail in a Seinfeld episode. This appears to be a copycat coffee spilling and lawsuit!
I don’t go there either and I really wasn’t thinking about you when I posted under “cure…”. It’s the people that do go there & whine about it. They should vote with their feet & wallets.
You know… embarassing story but when I was a very young man I was eating a bowl of chicken noodle soup in front of my grandmother’s TV from one of those flimsy TV trays every grandmother had back in the day.
Well, you can see where this is going…
I spilled the soup into my lap. My legs were badly scarred (and remained that way until highschool – at least).
Guess who I sued? My grandmother? Campbells soup? K-Mart (where the TV trays probably came from)? Whatever low-rent company made the TV trays?
Noone. Nope… I didn’t need a PI attorney, didn’t need an accountant and a Brink’s truck.
I think I got a bowl of ice cream as a pay-off from my grandmother to not tell my mom. That’s all this guy deserves… a hug and a bowl of ice cream from the Starbucks people.
I am not a big fan of Starbucks, but as long as we have attorneys that take these cases and judges that award them, they will be around! After all, they make money off of these cases.
Anyone remember the fold out handles that used to be on paper cups?? Maybe they could go back to those and have a completely closed lid with a straw that you have to suck on to get at the contents. It could be filled like syringe bottles & you could hold it in your teeth!
….or something like that. Nah, this yahoo would probably find a way to defeat it anyway & whine to the suit pants judge.
Gill-
This may be the best post ever in the history of the IJ’s comment area.
Dear Nobody Important: while not a totally bad idea, it treats the symptom and not the cause. You can’t “idiot proof” everything in the world. Why is it so important to have coffee while driving a car? It’s dangerous and as you point out, it always spills. There’s nothing wrong with the current cups as long as you don’g grab them around the top. That’s the weakest point and it causees the cup to collapse. When you pick it up at the middle or lower there’s no probelm. Regardles of the cup, there are those idiots who will find a way to spill it. Retailers contingue to play this checker game with consumers. It would serve people right if they were required to sign a waiver of liability and acknowledge an assumption of risk for any hotl liquit.