Mug too big

All the mugs in the mini-kitchen at work have mysteriously vanished. In desperation, I took the lift down six floors to the BBC Shop and purchased myself a “Property of the Stig” mug. This cost me, with my staff discount, £7.01 including tax.

It’s a good mug. It has a pleasing shape with a good heft to it, a sensible two-finger handle, and it’s in a dark colour which should absorb any available radiant energy and thus keep my tea warm.

Unfortunately, the damn thing doesn’t fit in the dispensing area of our mini-kitchen’s magic robotic tea machine that dispenses a liquid that is “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea”.

However, imbued with the spirit of the Stig, I took a typical Top Gear approach to the problem. Using a miniature crowbar (aka a wooden stirring stick), I pried up the drain covering and wedged my mug in the sump below. This allowed the Stig to shower beneath the heavenly beverage and I am now once again swilling tannic acid and caffeine.