A forgotten post from late summer that never managed to get up here...until today!

I hate beverage containers that are not waterproof. I hate them so much. If you are going to design something to hold liquids, wouldn't it follow that you would like that container to NOT LEAK?

 

Yesterday I ate yummy take out thai food, and got a thai iced tea to go along with it. Because it was somewhat late when I got the tasty tea, and there is loads of sugar and caffine in it, I decided to save half of it for this morning.

 

So I woke up this morning, grabbed my tea from the fridge, grabbed a metal coffee container with a lid that has rubber sealing on the top, and I put the tea in. My tea was all sealed up, but because I have had issues in the past, I ALSO put the coffee mug in a plastic bag.  I get in the car. I drive 20 minutes.  I arrive at bart.  I get out of the car. I walk up stairs. I tag my card. I walk down stairs.  I wait for the doors to open. The doors open and I walk in. I sit down to get my reading material.  When I pull it out, IT IS COVERED IN TEA. "ASS BALLS," I think. WTF IS GOING ON.

 

To my horror, the entire bottom of my bag is swimming in liquid. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? The coffee container is still upright, the socks I put in to keep it upright in my bag are still there, still holding it upright (and are now bright orange from the tea). Luckily my bag is waterproof, so none of it is leaking out on to me on the subway. BUT WTF. HOW DID ALL THAT LIQUID GET OUT FROM A CONTAINER THAT IS SUPPSED TO (SUPPOSEDLY) CONTAIN LIQUIDS?? Contain them I say!

 

Rude. Upon arriving at work, I grab paper towels and start sopping up the insides of my bag. It appears my coffee container is leaking from the bottom, which is a mystery because the insides are one piece of metal with no visible cracks or imperfections. Upon closer inspection I see a little "RBS Lynk" logo - which makes me angry.  If this company is trying to woo me with their free give-aways, this is not the way to do it. 

 

Their blatant disregard of the beverage consumer is irritating. Are we supposed to put their coffee mug on a pedestal and never use it?

 

Apperently so.