[Lesley Silvester]

I wanted to scoop some Caprivite from the big tub into a smaller container so I grabbed a mug out of the cupboard and pushed it into the powder. The handle snapped in my hand, cutting my finger and making it bleed. I dread to think what would have happened if someone had used it for a hot drink -  a nasty scald I suspect. It was an old mug but I didn't expect it to be dangerous.

[doganjo]

The young ones can be as bad.     I made a cuppa for myself and my cousin the other day.  Wondered why there was a puddle on the worktop under one of the mugs - thought I'd had a shoogly haun and poured over the side of it.  Morag picked the mug up and the bottom fell out!    Could have happened on our knees!

[Lesley Silvester]

It's scary when you have a near miss like that. This mug had been used so many times so what went wrong this time is anybody's guess.

[Brucklay]

I must have a 'good un' - used for my breakfast since my best friend gave it to me for my 16th birthday!! Well over 30 years old and used every morning - slightly sad but it wouldn't be the same in another mug!!

[Lesley Silvester]

Those are always the best mugs to have.

[Fleecewife]

For sheer inanimate malevolence you can't beat a mug.  We had one which played Jingle Bells every time it was lifted up.  After a while I felt like smashing it to bits, but out of the kindness of my heart I just chucked it in the dustbin.  Until the dustbin men came to take it away, every time we opened the lid of the bin, we'd be hit with Jingle Bells    I'm sure it went on calling out even when it was in the landfill - I wonder if anyone heard and rescued it ?

[Lesley Silvester]

 


I remember those. They're funny the first few times then drive you demented. Good move throwing it away. You could have given it to a charity shop and annoyed someone else though.

[doganjo]

I have a ''Little Miss Sunshine' one that my first husband gave me in my christmas stocking one year - he died in 1991 so it is at least that old!     I'd completely forgotten I had it.

[Lesley Silvester]

What a lovely keepsake. You must treasure it.

[doganjo]

My  fave mugs - left to right a gift from a Judging appointment in Norway - one of their Brittany champions; next is my first Brittany, Brett - someone had taken a photo of him and was selling these mugs, so I bought a couple ; then one of the sire of Hester my first German Wirehair; then another one of Brett, then two chicken ones that friends have given me.

[Lesley Silvester]

What a lovely collection. Do you dare use them? I'd be scared of breaking one.

[doganjo]

Oh they are all used - I drink a lot of tea and coffee 

[Lesley Silvester]

And why not indeed.