The Perfect Coffee Cup

I don't go anywhere without coffee.  I like it steaming hot and black (I know you know how bad I wanna say "like my men" right?)  Anyway,  I drink coffee when I wake up in the morning; paired with a Marlboro Ultra Light (Oh, excuse me--Silver Pack.)  I drink coffee while I'm driving to work and I drink more at my desk throughout the day.  I also make sure I have a cup of coffee whenever I am in a meeting at my kid's school or anyplace really.

t's not like I have nothing better to do or anything, but it's really important for an avid coffee drinker such as myself, to find the perfect coffee cup.  I tried the cup at Dunkin Donuts and it sucked.  Now this is nothing against Dunkin Donuts itself; hell, I could probably afford to purchase a summer home if I ever quit drinking Dunkin Donuts coffee but their travel coffee mug really sucks.  No matter what you do somehow coffee dribbles down your chin because the plastic lip of their travel mugs is too fat.

Starbucks is another place I've earned frequent flyer miles at, but their travel coffee mugs also suck.  I've purchased travel coffee mugs from: Duane Reade, CVS, Sears, Kmart, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Shoprite and Panera.  All of them SUCK!  Some of them dripped. Others leaked.  Still others never quite got seasoned and still managed to make the coffee taste like plastic or pencil shavings.

It's really important for a travel coffee cup to be sippable, no spillage.  It must allow the coffee to taste the way it would in a regular ceramic mug at home.  A travel coffee mug must be able to keep your coffee nice and hot.  And you can't have it leaking water every time you wash it.   Oh and that's another thing.  NEVER WASH YOUR TRAVEL COFFEE CUP WITH SOAPY WATER!  No matter what, it will forever make your cup taste like bubbles.

So last Christmas I went on yet another quest for the perfect travel coffee cup.  Target had one near the door on my way out.  It was maybe $3.99 or something and so I grabbed one.  I wrapped it up and addressed it to myself.  After that, I totally forgot about it.  I suffered all through the month of December with a travel coffee cup that was otherwise perfect except every time I lifted the cup to drink the tab at the top would slide closed so I'd only end up with a few drops of coffee in my mouth.

On Christmas day I opened my gift to myself last.  My travel coffee cup.  It is magnificent.  State of the art, really.  It sips perfectly;keeps my coffee piping hot;and allows the true rich flavor of the coffee to shine through.  My $3.99 travel coffee cup from Target has changed my life.