Category: duh

If you do not have kids, let me tell you something that is going to drive you batty when you do.  "Sippy cups" are cups with a top and (if they are the expensive ones) a gasket thingie that prevents any liquid from passing through without suction.  That is, the toddler sucks the way he or she would suck a nipple to get the drink.  You end up buying these things en masse because the gaskets disappear like sunglasses or socks.  So in time you end up with lots of big cups with lids and no purpose because they leak all over.  Every brand has their own implementation of this technology, so there is no mixing and matching either. Here is my solution...sell spare gaskets.  Duh!  If one company did this, I would buy only their sippy cups for that reason alone since they are all basically the same thing.  Then fire the dill weeds whose job it should have been to figure this out instead of me.