April 2, 2008
Adult Sippy Cups All the Rage On Bart
Although Peet's Coffee kiosks will open up at lucky BART stations later this year, it seems that you won't be able to drink your morning drug while riding to work. Pft. A heavy fine for being caught drinking or eating on Bart, according to the Oakland Tribune, can cost you $250 and up to 48 hours of community service. (BART Police Patrol Bureau Cmdr. Travis Gibson tells the Tribune that "[r]iders can eat and drink inside 'free areas' outside the fare gates ... [b]ut, once inside the 'paid area,' which includes the platform, sipping and chewing are strictly forbidden." Jesus.) Strange, since BART has been giving away free coffee certificates over the past few months.
But BART Board of Directors member Lynette Sweet has a solution: adult sippy cups.
Awesome.
For years, infants and toddlers have been cruelly keeping secret that sippy cups rule. You can flip them over your head, throw them on the kitchen tile while eating your Cheerios, shake them while dancing to "Fruit Salad," and nary a drop comes of out them. Sweet would like to see the ban lifted for those of us that sip our java en route using public transportation using these cups.
Not that anyone really gets busted for drinking on BART. (Have you? If so: chortle.) Nevertheless, we recommend purchasing an adult sippy cup in order to not spill your piping hot beverage on anyone, and to save the environment, or whatever. Peet's will open up at at the Montgomery station in May. Additional locations might open at Pittsburgh/Bay Point, Downtown Berkeley, San Francisco's Civic Center, and Daly City as well. We want to see fun, personalized cups on BART by summer. Bedazzle them if needed.
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Just brew your own coffee and toss it in a sippy cup. Save some money!
Does this mean I can drink those "to go" soups you find at the grocery store as well?
Piping hot beverages in plastic. Something seems not quite right. Although if it melts the face off Dora the Explorer, that can only be a good thing, right?
If more people starting drinking iced coffee, this wouldn't be a problem. personally, i hate hot or warm beverages.
I've been using a vacuum lid coffee cup on bart for about 18 months and I've never been nabbed. Had cops walk right past.
Maybe if it was full of malt liquor?
"cruelly keeping secret that sippy cups rule" - heheheheh.
Have you ever tried drinking out of a sippy cup? I tried it once with my son's water - it takes FOREVER to drink!
When I was in college we had a one spill and you get a sippy cup rule at parties. It saved our carpet, I don't see why it couldn't save BART's.
As long as you don't stink up the car or slaughter a live chicken, you'll probably be just fine. A few months ago on a crowded 5 PM run from Embarcadero to the East Bay one group of slackers took a group of four seats, proceeded to lay out a spread of fried chicken and 2 liter soda bottles on one of the seats, then when they were done they dumped the whole thing on the floor under one of the seats.
They're experimenting with carpetless cars (and hanger straps - old school!). Just hose the cars down at the end of the day.
You know, I'm thinking that there is a reason they call it public transportation. If we don't like not be able to at least have coffee on BART, can't we just petition these jerkasses to allow such consumption? Or perhaps an overblown ballot initiative?
They didn't bring enough chicken to share with the whole car? How rude.