From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 15:48:28 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>Charles Hixson
>>
>>I didn't say that it was a particularly good
>>judgement. But spilling
>>your coffee shouldn't send you to the hospital. If
>>it does, the matter
>>needs to be addressed.
>>...
>>
>Here's a warning for coffee cups:
>
>WARNING: If you are an idiot who doesn't know that
>coffee is hot and can burn when spilled, then WAKE UP
>and BE CAREFUL, ya smeghead!!!!
>...
>
There's a bit of a difference between spilling coffee on yourself, and
ending up in the hospital. I've spilt coffee before, it happens. It's
never sent me to the hospital. On the other hand, when I was four I
spilled a boiling water vaoprizer, and did end up in the hospital. The
two cases are a long way apart. Coffee that takes your skin off is
unsafe in those fragile styrofoam cups. I don't feel any coffee should
ever be that hot, but that's a matter of taste. However those styrofoam
cups become weaker when they get hotter, so putting a near boiling
liquid in them is unsafe. And expecting people to carry them when
filled with near boiling liquid is recklessly endangering them.
Still, I don't know that this was the problem. It seems likely to me,
but I wasn't there, I didn't hear the evidence. And their coffee was so
bad the one time I tasted it, that I have no inclination to repeat the
experience.
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