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To wonder what is wrong with people who don't really drink

409 replies

OptimismvsRealism · 12/07/2024 07:12

No - not alcohol

Just liquid

People who can sit down to a meal without so much as a glass of water

People who invite guests to stay but have nothing to offer them to drink oh and you'd have to boil the tapwater haha

I can't sleep from thinking about this

OP posts:
Pinkstanley · 12/07/2024 07:23

People are different. DH drinks very little whereas I have glasses of water and yes, that includes a Stanley cup or 3 dotted about the house at any one time.

JeezLouisa · 12/07/2024 07:22

It's odd how people vary in terms of how much fluid they drink. I am a big drinker but I wonder whether it's something I've got used to doing and now feel that I need it.

You see it with children too - some hardly seem to need much and others chug away on their water bottles all day long.

Menora · 12/07/2024 07:22

I kind of get what you mean my mum never drinks much liquid and we always find it weird. She only drinks coffee nothing else so if it isn’t on offer at a meal or someone’s house she will just drink nothing at all for hours.

I do usually have a drink of some kind at all times around. Water to take to bed for the morning. I always have a drink when I drive. I have water on my desk all day. I would order a drink in a restaurant

Jujubeez · 12/07/2024 07:22

People are different. 🤷🏻‍♀️ No need to lose sleep over it.

GeneralMusings · 12/07/2024 07:20

My parents were like thus!

Idontjetwashthefucker · 12/07/2024 07:20

I rarely have a drink with food, it's usually straight after and I never boil tap water 🤷‍♀️

BarcardiWithGadaffia · 12/07/2024 07:19

I dont have a glass of water when I'm eating, I had no idea there was something wrong with me but thanks for the heads up, I will make a doctor's appointment as soon as the phone lines open

Willmafrockfit · 12/07/2024 07:18

i dont need a drink when i eat

i wonder what is wrong with those that do need a drink to help their food go down

ilovesooty · 12/07/2024 07:15

It's stopping you from sleeping?