Stupid Lids!!!

Have you ever stopped to examine the lid from a fast food restaurant, or any restuarant for that matter? What's up with all of the jibberish all over the top? I mean really, do we really need all of the extra crap? You know, the "diet", "tea" and "other" buttons, as well as the air vents etc? For instance, today I went to lunch with my BFF Jen at Applebees. The super sweet waitress asked if we wanted her to make us a pop (aka: soda, drink, refill, beverage, etc.) to go. Jen said no, I on the other hand said yes! For those of you that don't know it, I can't go anywhere with out a pop. So, she brings the pop and I proceed to try to put the straw in the lid. I'm sorry, but there was more than one place to put a straw!!! At first I tried the "air vent". You know, the part that sticks up in the middle, with the tiny tiny hole in the top for letting hot air out (I think!). Of course that didn't work!! Next, I tore back the little section where you would drink coffee, if it were in fact coffee that was in the cup (not so in this case!). Finally, Jen decided to point out that cup lids were so confusing and that there was ANOTHER opening on the top of the lid. This opening would be the infamous "X", made from two little cuts in the plastic, which makes the perfect spot for a straw. She just had to say, "Or, you could just stick it in the spot where the straw goes, right there where the X is"!! By this time, I had already poked at the air vent, tore the perforation and peeled back the cover to the Hot Beverage section and was now staring at the place where the straw was OBVIOUSLY supposed to go! Needless to say, I am OCD and the torn lid would absolutely not suffice. I had to ask the waitress for another lid and replace the one that I had demolished, trying to find the spot to stick that darn straw!!!