random travel mug lids.......

ok, so my youngest child melted down the lid to my favorite travel mug in the dishwasher.......it ended up on top of the heat element......and now i have to improvise with non-standard replacements until i get around to finding another entire mug.....or a lid that fits......there appears to be no standardized cup/lid decree in this country.......makers of every plastic and aluminum vessel simply make them willy-nilly.....and thus our graveyard of bottoms and tops has yet another bottom.....reasonable and less-optimistic folk would have thrown out the lot...or at least passed them off to the goodwill......for a tax deduction.....but we haven't lost hope that a lid will come along for the grey centre mug......or a bottom will come along for the numerous round/black/tabbed tops that are in abundance but fit securely on nothing......a conundrum.......one would think that just going to work and drinking coffee there would suffice.....but my workmates buy the special blend $2.99/lb coffee........which only hits the caffeine-deprivation spot in absolute and dire emergencies......until that time....i will struggle to make random lids fit equally random bottoms......or just drive with the hot beverage lidless.....now that is my idea fo living dangerously............