... to think that putting a stemmed glass on a coaster is idiotic

[Jizelle]

I took in a package for the neighbour today and when I took it over she offered me a glass of wine... yes please. She then rushed at me with a coaster when she noticed I was about to put it down on the side table.

Coasters are to prevent condensation from marring the table. The foot of a stemmed glass will not have condensation. All a coaster does when a stemmed glass is involved is to make an unstable target for putting down something that is already top-heavy. It really is alarmingly stupid.

Alarmingly stupid? Really?

Most people don't spend so much time analysing coaster usage for different beverages or care about the origins of coasters.

How alarmed should we be?

Police. Now.

Would you be paying to replace her wine stained table?

What a pointless, nasty thread. I actually hope you're a troll because if you're real that's desperately shabby of you.

Yes, someone who invited you in and gave you a glass of wine, clearly is alarmingly stupid.

I would have left you on the step!

@NoProblem123

Move house immediately.

"Unstable target"? Are her coasters made out of cobblestones?

I put glasses on coasters so they don't mark the wood

Does the coaster turn the wine into vinegar? Nope? Just bloody drink it, say thanks and return to your coasterless safe place.

I put glasses on coasters so they don't mark the wood

Me too. I am with #Team Coasters all the way

I can only hope no children or animals witnessed the atrocity! #saynotocoasterskids

I'd be really pissed off if I offered someone I thought of as a friend, albeit a casual friend, a glass of wine in my own home and she sat there in judgement over something so bloody stupid. I'd really think less of her.

Oh FGS !
Coasters are to stop surfaces getting marked with alien snobbery

Bloody hell I must have been absent from college on the day that they gave instructions on coaster usage, been using them for all cups and glasses for years.
Also I see the dictionary definition is completely wrong!

I use coasters for everything, but in the great scheme of things does it matter! You got a drink, move on, each to their own, live and let live and so on

Is this meant to be the Friday night funny thread?

You failed, OP, you sound like a sneery snob.

I use coasters for all beverages, hot and cold, and in varying receptacles. I don't want my furniture stained or scratched.

#Team Coaster here

hang on, your neighbour gave you wine for taking in a parcel and you're complaining? :D

Yes, in honor of OP, I think “the type of CF who would complain about free wine” is definitely a thing in my head now.

Friday night first world problem alert peeps!

If you will accept a glass of wine from Hyacinth, you only have yourself to blame.

Yeah a cold wine\cider still forms condensation that runs down the stem and leaves a ring without a coaster!

the type of CF who would complain about free wine

i briefly gave out free wine for a living (along with other duties). no-one except me had to wash up the glasses with a hangover the next morning, and they were eminently polite about the free wine :D