Not to brag, but I've been making some nice advances with my cup work. See, you have to tilt the cup to get the water close to your mouth. Then you slurp it up from there. The amount of tilt controls how fast the water comes at you.
For weeks I didn't really understand the whole thing. I thought the point was to flip the cup over. That way I could get the water out real fast. How silly, really.
My developments have also been assisted by learning a very important big-picture lesson: listen. Other little people have some real nice insight on stuff.
Thanks, Michael! You went above and beyond in the help you gave, cousin.