Present for me, honor for the Goddess of coffee

[scyllacat]

My new coffee mug All hail Caffeina, and here is the vessel of her blessedness.

We have searched high and low, and in the middle, in the cupboards and on the clearance shelves, in the discount stores and the snooty cafes, for a good travel mug. Day after day, we leave the house with coffee in precariously balanced real coffee cups, in leaky go-cups, in travel mugs that don't quite fit the cupholders. Month after month, we throw away coffee cups that didn't keep the coffee warm, that leaked, and that lost their lids. We have spilled coffee down our blouses and in our consoles. We have repeatedly reheated in the microwave. No more, I say, no more. Today, we stood in the Borders bookstore and looked, yet again, at the display of coffee cups. The majestic Nissan pictured above was on sale for $14.99. We looked at it, pulled on it, fiddled with it, compared it to all the other cups, discussed it with the baristas, and finally, they are ours. Finally, my goddess has a proper vessel, which will keep her warm and safe.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hail, Caffiena!!!

[flyswatter.livejournal.com]

I am always looking for a good travel mug and this looks like it fits the bill. My question is this, if it is dropped from a height of five feet onto concrete, will it bust or leak? When I leave the house in the morning, I set my coffee cup and thermos on this narrow brick ledge outside my door as I fiddle with my stuff and lock the door and so many times the cup or thermos has taken a header. The thermos, which is luckily metal, looks disgusting but still works--though it leaks a bit, but I have lost so many cups this way.

Got to get you one!

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Yes. I'm not going outside to throw the coffee cup at the ground and see! But the exterior is stainless, plastic and rubber.

I did some preliminary testing. Falling off a 20-inch chair, onto carpet, the cup's biggest issue with being dropped, as far as I can see, is that, when the chair is pulled out from under it, it tends to fall on its head/lip. The good news is that it does not leak (this assumes you actually tightened it down to closed!). The bad news is that, this is probably the weakest part of the cup.

That's not necessarily even a recommendation against however for the reason that the lid /drinking apertures are recessed within the lip of the cup, so it doesn't seem as though, even falling on its head, the cup would lose structural integrity. What I'd be most concerned about is that you would scrape or distort the lip and not have as pleasant or sanitary a drinking experience.

I suppose the stainless might dent if it fell on its side AND hit hard enough, but the non metal reinforcements seemed to be taking the most of the hit when I dropped it on its side.

Finally, if dropped straight down, it lands on its bottom, hitting the reinforced rubber base.

Ok, Laura, if you're near Perimeter Mall, they have these available -- at 40% off the regular price, bringing the price down from $24.99 to $14.99 -- at the Borders. They have a Seattle's Best logo on the other side (from the Nissan logo), so if you're not near the Perimeter Borders, be sure you're going to one where they have a Seattle's Best Cafe.

The site I got the picture from was selling them for $30, on sale from $40, so apparently the Seattle's Best deal is FANTASTIC.