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

They sound like rotten hosts. Offended because they haven't catered for you and would rather you be thirsty?
Who are these people to you?

Those of us of a certain generation might remember drinking lots of 'Corporation pop' during the Summers of our childhood(that's just water to the uninitiated!).

Back in my twenties when my migraines were serious enough to warrant further investigation,a consultant advised me not to drink with a meal;staying hydrated was vitally important but never while eating.

I'm nearly 70 now and make sure that I drink regularly.I prefer fizzy water these days as I generally don't like tap water.Coffee or Earl Grey are my favourite hot brews and I'll have a glass of milk at bedtime.

This is bizarre. I’ve seen competitive under eating threads in MN before, but competitive under drinking is a new one on me.

OP, I get you. I can’t imagine having guests in a house that had no potable water supply, and not offering alternatives that didn’t include having to boil your own water. I’m rural myself with a private water supply which is filtered and maintained. Because I’m not a medieval peasant. Although that’s a thought - they all drank weak ale by the gallon daily - could that be an option?

Seriously though - go and get drinks and never mind how offended these very odd people are - they couldn’t give a stuff about your comfort, clearly.

I don’t drink much at all. Maybe 3 drinks a day and that’s it.

Whose house are you staying at that you know and presumably like them well enough to stay overnight but they’re also such awful people they’d be offended you like to drink more than they do? If a guest came to stay and wanted more than I did to drink I wouldn’t give it any thought, and would offer to get more in or happily make room in the fridge for their juices etc. Presumsbly you have a car or means to get to the shop? Just buy a few bottles of water or whatever you like to drink, and go again in a few days if you need to. Honestly so dramatic!

Jesus Christ it was added for dramatic effect! If they object to providing potable water for OP because of cost then the usage of water to wash hands, pots, bodies, flushing the toilet, must push them over the edge?!

Sorry I didn't realise there was some personal knowledge or joke between you and OP

There isn't. But it seems a bit pointless posting stuff on a public forum if no one is allowed to ask questions about your posts for fear of being sworn at.

One of my parents only drinks an espresso or two in lieu of breakfast, and a glass of wine with their evening meal. Occasionally a half pint of beer after a walk on the weekend.
The other drinks coffee all morning, and the occasional herbal tea or glass of Diet Coke in the evening.
I can't remember ever seeing either of them drink water. Their friends are all the same. Boomer generation

@GiveMeSpanakopita yeah I use a peloton usually between 30-60 mins and it gets warm!
Vodka is tempting some days....

It’s not normal for me.

Spin is a stationary bike right? So indoors, so yes you're probably sweating a huge amount.

That plus the 140 calls a day ofc! If I had to speak to that many people in a day it wouldn't be water I'd need - it'd be a stiff whisky! 😂

Jesus Christ it was added for dramatic effect! If they object to providing potable water for OP because of cost then the usage of water to wash hands, pots, bodies, flushing the toilet, must push them over the edge?!

Sorry I didn't realise there was some personal knowledge or joke between you and OP

@GiveMeSpanakopita I think it's the fact spin is so fast maybe? I don't drink as much with netball and weights
But it's more the fact I do about 140 phone calls a day and if I don't drink I get really sore

My family have haemocromotosis (blood disorder/iron overload) and it's true about tea tannins inhibiting the absorption of iron.
Is a pub med published study a good enough article for you??

"Results: A significant reduction in iron absorption was observed when the test meal was accompanied by drinks of tea instead of water. In the tea drinking group, the increase in storage iron was reduced by about one third compared with that of the control group."

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9824354/

I run 5k a day and I don't drink that much lol

I'm with you on multiple cups of tea tho ;-)

My ILs are similar to your hosts and I am similar to you. I suppose big difference is water is available and they are water drinkers. I detest water (I know I shouldn’t), I live off mutiple fizzy drinks/ribenna/herbal tea. I always load my car with crates of MY drinks before I visit then each day I take so many in to the bedroom to keep me going in the evening/early morning.

I won’t die of dehydration without them but I get faux withdrawals without! I always have to have ice cold drinks so I do suffer there sometimes as they aren’t kept in a fridge. However I take a few Stanley cups and load with the ice I purchase and leave in their freezer, and a Stanley filled with hot water for evening tea drinking. This then gives me enough ice until the morning - I do feel awkward but hey ho. I could leave these in their fridge and access when I want but I feel awkward as I said they are water drinkers vs caffine loaded fizzy drinks!

Can you not visit a shop in the day depending on how long you are staying and do something similar? I also find when I only have one drink left and I need to stretch it I always want more and that’s harder to manage!

It may well be generational. I'm old, and see water as both necessary and adequate. As I posted upthread, at home I drink other things, but not either soft drinks or fruit juice, and would not usually have either available for guests - soft drinks were very occasional treats (not every week, never mind every day), fruit juice didn't exist unless you cut oranges in half and squeezed them yourself..

Yes indeed. Have you got 'owt moist?

Like me, OP may have been brought up being told that it's rude to take anything to eat or drink when you go to stay at someone's house. I have the same issue as I don't drink tea, coffee or milk, so I'm often stuck with tap water unless I bring my own drinks, which genuinely doesn't always seem to go over that well. It may be a generational thing, I dunno.

It is shit hosting to not have drinks in the house for guests.

People have different requirements but no-one should be thirsty.

I don’t drink tea or coffee so I always carry squash with me in the car plus bottled water for emergencies (partly because I spend a lot of my time in a field with no drinking water - horse related).

@GiveMeSpanakopita they're fine, I've always drunk a lot, had a kidney scan a couple of years ago
I spend all day talking and need drinks so my throat isn't killing me by the end of the day. On days I don't exercise I drink less

Some people drink far too much water. There’s some silly behaviour with water bottles,

Equally I sometimes find elderly patients quite dehydrated because they only drink tea, water is not a familiar drink for them.

At both ends of the scale their sodium levels can be an issue.

OP will know what I'm talking about.

(Edited as hit send too soon):
But it wasn't the additional D that puzzled me. Why do you refer to it as 'wanton' water use?

You're not supposed to have a cold drink with food, it congeals the food in your stomach and makes it harder to digest.

In Japan restaurants give you free green tea to eat with your meal.

You'll knacker your kidneys if you carry on like that!