We live in this land of homogenised paper cups, vending machine the spew out moccachinos, ‘capachinos’, hot chocolate and ‘plane’ horlicks. Its a cramped newspaper office with spelling mistakes galore but not let me not digress. It’s my new office.
I say homogenised land of paper cups because here at my new office, we have a very snazzy vending machine that bursts forth with dozens of hot beverages and for the first few days I hardly drank any. My conscience would not allow me to drink more than one cup a day or one type through the day so as to waste fewer cups. (Yes, one of those). So I solved my problem.
I got my own neat ceramic and marched forth ahead for that first environmentally sound cuppa. But now I had a different problem. The cup would not fit into the vending machine. So I was stuck to dissolving milk powder and coffee and going stir and drink .. stir and drink..
I had noticed people slugging suspicious looking hot drinks in many a fancy mug and wondered how they solved the problem. Without wanting to appear very foolish (some would do) at perhaps not noticing the obvious, I asked one colleague. She says, “Simple. Fill your mug up with a paper cup and enjoy.”
Sigh…
Has anyone every noticed how much paper is wasted at a paper’s office? Try it! We have trucks coming to collect the raddi!
LOL!! okay its funny even if its not thoughtful
In my earlier office in Noida, we had a vending machine with a sliding base. So if you had a larger cup, you could slide off the base and fill it up.
Maybe if you tilted your cup and got it filled?
I managed to get a small ceramic cup that fits (in one of the smaller cupboards below) and now can fill my cup..
he he! yes..a smaller cup is a better idea than tilting a bigger one.
Yes wldnt want to increase the work for the super efficient housekeeping staff.
I remember you going with your cup for coffee…!
Your new office infrastructure sounds like a dream!