Here’s the second1 in the series of posts about the beverage mugs from which I drink my coffee. With this post, I’m continuing the effort to pull back the curtains and let readers know what is happening here at Special Education Today.
This photo of another mug on my desk shows a cup some may interpret as a bit impolite. Yes, it refers to a bodily function that one or two readers may find stinky. Understood.

When one of my family members gave me this mug—I think it was for a birthday in the 1990s— it was sort of a family (“familiar?”) joke. Having lived with me for most of their lives, they knew that I might sometimes2 break wind.
They made fun with it. They said, “It works three ways.”
They put their hand over the second word in each line so I could only see a column with “Old” in three rows. “See!”
Then they covered the beginning of each column, obscuring the word “old.” “See, it works this way, too!”
Finally, they held a hand over two of the three lines so that only one was visible. “And, see!”
Now, if one closely examines the photo posted here, she may see the background image shows an SET page about multi-sensory literacy. If you do or do not like multi-sensory reading, that should convince you that all three of Pat’s and Corey’s interpretations of the mug message are correct.
Yours, sincerely,
Ancient Air
Footnote
To see the first mugs shot, go to My mugs shots: My mugs shots: 1.
Okay. “often” might be a better adverb.