My office has a great little kitchen complete with a full-size refrigerator, dishwasher, sink and cabinet of mismatched plates, bowls and mugs. In the evening, someone loads all of the used cups and bowls from the day into the dishwasher and somebody else empties it in the morning. Several times a day, someone in the office makes a pot of coffee using Starbucks beans. Every morning I grab a mug from the cabinet and pour myself a cup o’ joe. It’s a treat to not have to bother with programming my coffee machine at home or spending a couple of bucks every day for my a.m. caffeine jolt, which, as we all know, adds up over time.
While all of the mugs go through the dishwasher before being reused, they don’t get scrubbed around the outside first. Nearly all of the mugs have a faint smudge of pink lipstick caked onto their edges. There aren’t very many people in the office who wear lipstick (I don’t), but I have yet to single out the culprit. One would think that this person would realize she’s staining the mugs and would either remove her lipstick before drinking or just apply it afterwards.
Obviously this doesn’t bother me enough to not use the company’s assortment of mugs, but after reading sfgirlbybay’s post on vintage mugs and cups, I think I’d like to get a couple of my own. I’d take care to hand wash them everyday (not that I’d get any lipstick stains on them), and I’d keep them at my desk where they’d be part functional, part decoration.
(image via sfgirlbybay)
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