I have a small coffee maker at work. It makes about 20 oz. of coffee. The carafe is glass and has a hinged plastic lid. The lid cannot rotate, as it’s hinged and so it is just able to flap up and down, or come off. When I pour the coffee out of it and into the cup, the coffee runs down the side of the carafe and onto the floor and surface that the coffee maker is sitting on. It makes a big coffee-ish mess all over.

Why is that?

I asked my coworker and she said “maybe the lid is on crooked.” But the lid is hinged and cannot rotate, so we both decided that being on crooked is not possible and therefore, not a possible solution.