For Crissy Sharp

Observation: I really don't like the to-go coffee cup lids with the little hole to sip coffee through. I stopped in the local inventor-of-the-chicken-sandwich restaurant this morning to pick up a biscuit for my bride (thats the kinda thing we great husbands do), and ordered myself a small cup of light coffee. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a coffee purist nor a connoisseur of java. In fact, a good cup of coffee has several ounces of artery-blocking creamer and a teaspoon full of pure sugar. Anyway, I created my concoction, and set off in my macho-I'm-forty-one-and-drive-a-big-truck vehicle. Now granted, having a lid on the coffee cup did prevent sloshes and other buttock-scalding mishaps, but it just wasn't right. When sucking coffee through the hole, the middle of the tongue and/or the roof of the mouth interacts with the hot mix; totally inappropriate. God has given us gifted coffee drinkers extra large lips to perform the introductory rites to hot liquids. To bypass the lips and allow assault to the mouth is a violation of the created order, or something like that.

Isn't there a presidential election coming up soon? I wonder where the candidates stand on the lid issue. Someone has to fight for the rights of lips. It might as well be me.

G