Teapots and the World that Doesn't Work

There's a lot in this world that is supposed to work but doesn't. Be it faulty design, poor planning, or the stubbornness of physics and gravity, things just don't work right. Case in point, the teapot. While infinitely better for creating hot water than, say, the microwave, the teapots that I've encountered have one fatal flaw across the board: they can't pour water.

For reasons unknown to me, the teapot, when tilted to release water into my mug, produces a small dribble that runs down the spout. Aside from getting water all over the counter, it also creates the opportunity for me to get burned beyond recognition. Perhaps there are physics and science majors out there can explain this phenomenon to me. Is it because the water is too hot? Is it because I don't know how to pour water (despite being able to perform the task with out water-pouring tools)? Or are all teapots made with scandal-inducing defects?

Pouring liquid cleanly isn't an impossible or unreasonable task. My French coffee press does this just fine. As do many buckets. My mug does not pour water well, but it wasn't really made for that. The heart of the matter is that there are plenty of other things that know how to pour water without spilling it everywhere; why can't teapots behave the same way?

I'm not the only one to experience this, either. A local coffee shop gives their customers small teapots to steep their teabags in. A friend of mine detailed his horrid experience with the pots as not only he, but everyone else in the shop, spilled hot tea water all over the place each time they wanted to refill their mugs. And the reaction is always the same, no matter how many times you have spilled water with a teapot: "What? What? Where the hell is this water coming from?" Every time.

We have been raised as a society to understand how a teapot is supposed to work ("here is my handle, here is my spout... tip me over and pour me out"). When are they are going to start making affordable teapots that work the way they're supposed to?