This little peeve of mine

Since this blog is my personal little fiefdom, I like to air my annoyances from time to time. As you may have noticed. Or noticed. Or noticed. Or - you get the idea. Anyhoodle, today's grievance involves this:

This puts me in the mood to visit Joel the Coffee Making Dude and his crack-laced caramel lattes.

Yes. Take out coffee. Or more specifically, take out coffee, Hollywood style: when a character in a TV show or movie drinks from a coffee cup - including the oversized mugs in every sitcom home, but especially the take out ones - it's clearly, obviously, empty.

The actors barely tip the cup to sip so it should be quite full, but the way it's carried and waved about makes it plain that there's nothing inside. There's no weight to the cup, no momentum breaking as the liquid sloshes around. I don't see why they can't put something inside - hell, it doesn't even have to be coffee: tea, water, soda, or even whiskey for old time's sake would do. But noooo, the starlets just keep pretending to drink their air lattes.

I recently mentioned this little peeve to Ben, because I thought it was so agonizingly obvious that he'd readily agree with me. Instead, he just shrugged and continued watching the show. And then suddenly grabbed me a few days later to wail, "Why did you tell me that? What is UP with the coffee cups? Now that's ALL I SEE! What have you done to me? I can't even watch anymore!"

I love sharing my annoyances. Especially when they start driving other people crazy, too.