How to Put a Plastic Lid on a Paper Cup

Never put the drinking hole of a plastic lid over the seam of a paper coffee cup.

If you place the lid's drinking hole over the seam, it will always leak.

The seam has just enough of a gap to let a drop of coffee out as you drink.

Acts like a friction pressure gap problem.

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