La Gringa's Invention
If you live in a hot and humid climate like we do here in La Ceiba, Honduras, I think you are going to like my invention. It is incredible how much water can drip off of the OUTSIDE of a drinking glass in this climate. It drips on your clothes, your legs, your furniture, the floor. Even if you use a coaster, the water puddles up and runs all over the furniture.
I guess that is why whenever I give a drink to a Honduran, they down it immediately and hand the glass back to me (cultural difference). I'm more of a sipper myself. I entertain myself for hours with a glass of iced tea, so the dripping was really a problem.
The custom here in La Ceiba, both in restaurants and at home, is to wrap a napkin around the glass. This might work for a short time, if the tiniest, flimsiest napkins known to mankind weren't used. No kidding.
These napkins are about as useful as as two squares of a one-ply toilet paper. People think they save money by buying the cheapest but the fact is the other night at a restaurant, three of us used about 27 napkins. You can't do anything with these napkins. Unfold them and you can read the newspaper through them. If you've been to La Ceiba, you know what I'm talking about.
Anyhoo, on to the invention: I call them drinking glass condoms. Have some old cotton socks laying around with holes in the toes? Cut off the foot and use the upper stretchy part as a drinking glass condom. You can even use new (cheap, I hope) socks so that you can have a matching set. Get colors to match your kitchen or glasses or terraza. The sky is the limit.
Just remember to use large size socks for wide glasses. Children sizes work well for small glasses. The more cotton content, the better they absorb. I sewed a zigzag stitch around the bottom to keep them from unraveling but you don't have to.
Condoms for drinking glasses.Now that I've told you, someone probably will make a million dollars from selling MY invention, but, oh well, I wanted to share. On the other hand, if someone else already invented this, well, sorry about that, but now everyone will make their own for free.
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si puedes pasa, gracias
Way funny name!
Have you forgotten the little foam bottle or can insulated holders?
They usually have advertising on them and can be found with mouse pads and coffee mugs at your local crap store.
I'm going to have to call the crap police and inform them of your patent infringement!
I'm surprised you don't have some with Vote for Mel! on them
HILARIOUS!
kman
Is it safer to have your third and forth margarita if you are using a drinking glass condom?
Such a great idea. I have been having trouble at work with the humidity here. I think I will take one with me tommorro, Kudo's to you. The boss frowns about water drops on the books.
Oh and I do hope your mother-in-law is doing okay.
Yes, I have forgotten them, Tom, because I haven't seen them for 6 years. I also don't see any kind of insulated glasses or cups here, strangely. We have a couple of gigantic insulated Texaco mugs that don't drip. I don't shop much, but I'm always on the lookout for insulated glasses.
Don Ray, hmmm, I'm not sure about that because some of them slide on the glass and the glass might slip out of your hand if you are impaired.
Andis, let me know how it works for you. Thanks for asking about la suegra. She has high blood pressure and was really upset about that situation.
Aaron, Kman, glad you liked it!
I've seen some cute hand made ones (glass covers) made
out of crochet that a relative
sent me from Honduras.
Excellent!
A cure for the puddles. I'm stealing this one, La Gringa!
Anon, now that is a great idea, too -- much more elegant than old socks. I may have to try that.
Hey, Jen. I'm glad you liked the idea. Try it and tell me how it works.
My grandmother knitted me and my sisters glass cozies for this reason. That was a number of years ago now and I don't know what happened to them.
I ended up using them with my daughter so she could hold her freezie pops without burning her little hands.
I love the sock idea! We may have to use your idea in our house.
p.s. 5 days and I'm home in Honduras. WOW!
Great idea LG, but... would you like to drink out of a glass with MY used sock wrapped around it? LOL
I think I would use brand new ones. Im sure they could be very very very well washed but i have that mental block of "used socks" in my glasses. :-)
Angel - Tegus
I'm excited for you, Sprout. I was just wondering the other day if you are here in Honduras yet. Let us know how it goes. I hope it isn't too overwhelming at first. There is something about knowing you are here to stay that can make it even more overwhelming. Keep in touch.
It's usually even hotter in San Pedro so you may like the "cozies."
Oops, I hit the send button too soon.
Angel, don't you think that you are being a little paranoid? ;-) After all it's just the top part, not the stinky bottom part and they are washed!
But, okay, try it with new socks if that will make you feel better. Have you shown them to your wife? Actually, I think you save enough on napkins to make up for the cost of new socks.
Hi,
I am originally from San Pedro Sula,
Honduras and I was reading most of your comments about my country. Some of them made me laugh because it reminded me of things that similarly happened to me( for example, about the rudeness of my people), others just make me sad. I totally understand what you have been through and you still do everyday living in La Ceiba, but the truth is that I never saw Honduras as a really poor country until I came to live to the US. Why was that? because here in the US we are spoiled by everything that surrounds us. My country is very dangerous, I always knew that, but I used to walk the streets of San Pedro Sula on my own may times and nothing happened to me thankfully. The only thing I can say is that, Americans have it very easy over here and should take advantage of every opportunity in life. Back in my country, I had no choice but to succeed in High school to be accepted into the university with a Scholarship.
Life is better now for me, but I will never forget my country, even though is not the greatest.
I loved your comment, Daryl, and I hope that you will visit again. I'm glad that I made you laugh, and I know what you mean about some of the articles making you sad as they make me very sad, too. I'd like to think that things can get better in this country for the poor but there is a long way to go.
I like it a lot when Hondurans say that I write the truth!
Yes, Americans have it very good and should learn to appreciate that more. We ARE spoiled! I, for one, have admitted that freely several times. Whenever I hear (US) Americans complaining about their country, I think "if you only knew!"
I'm glad that life is better for you now. Come back and visit again and let me know how I'm doing!
Hi La Gringa- we have been having the same problem with sweating/dripping beverages here in Panama. Being too lazy sew I've been trying napkin alternatives. After trying everything handy we have found a great solution. Basket shaped coffee filters wrapped around your bottle glass,etc. Work just like a coaster with no sticking or wet hands. The best part is so far they seem to be reusable after drying out. Hubby is on beer no.6 Try it out! Of course your invention is adorable, but leaves us with a wet bottom.
Sharon, your invention is pretty interesting, too. Actually, you don't get a wet bottom with these. I'm not sure why -- maybe because the bottom of the glass is thicker? I first tried doing a bottom but it was too thick and allowed the glass to tip over too easy. I still use coasters as well.
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