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Original poster

I never used to go around with a water bottle, let alone, grab a cup of coffee

741 replies

LittleBookofCalm · 13/10/2018 12:46

every time I went out.
what is it with people having to be constantly Slurping!

the world cannot cope with all the rubbish this causes.

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NotUmbongoUnchained · 13/10/2018 12:47

I always have a bottle of water with me. It’s important to drink plenty of water.

OftenHangry · 13/10/2018 12:48
Hmm

I second the pp

DuchessofManchester · 13/10/2018 12:50

I was in tesco this morning and saw three different people with Costa or Starbucks cups. Really can you not wait till you get home?
Also pees me off when they leave it on the shelf and just walk off.

IStandWithPosie · 13/10/2018 12:50

I don’t either. If I’m thirsty I will pour a glass of water. If I’m out or away from work I will buy a bottle of water but will take a gulp or two and then it goes in my bag and comes home for the fridge. It’s rare though. I don’t need to have constant access to water.

SpoonBlender · 13/10/2018 12:50

Yup. I carry my own. Kidney stones are awful.

NotUmbongoUnchained · 13/10/2018 12:53

Great if you can go home. I’m out of my house for 13 hours a day.

OlderThanAverageforMN · 13/10/2018 12:54

One of my biggest dislikes OP. Why, oh why, does everyone needs to be constantly drinking or eating on the move. Just sit down for a few minutes for goodness sake, it will do you good. Or, shock, horror, wait until you get home, back to the office to have a drink. You won't suddenly drop down dead for lack of liquid/sustenance. I know I am old, but we used to survive outside, in all weathers, for several hours, before we came in for our tea/dinner.

jesapey · 13/10/2018 12:54

I carry my own, I have a sigg bottle so reusable, I like to drink lots 🤷‍♀️

CripsSandwiches · 13/10/2018 12:56

I judge people that buy plastic bottles every day (instead of bringing a flask) but I don't see why they shouldn't carry water with them. Drinking water is good for you.

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LittleBookofCalm · 13/10/2018 13:01

Are all the pensioners on the bus slurping water, no, they have managed to live without constant hydration

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Thisreallyisafarce · 13/10/2018 13:02

I honestly cannot see why you or anybody else would care.

dentydown · 13/10/2018 13:04

I can understand water, my dad has kidney problems and I am trying to get into the drinking water habit.
Coffee, I suppose if you don’t have time to sit down and drink, you can have it on the go. I’ve got a moka pot so I can have real coffee whenever I want for a few pence rather than 3 quid!

dentydown · 13/10/2018 13:06

In the 80s us kids used to not drink water so we didn’t go to toilet during lessons and break time. (Used to get told off)

Fiffyshadesofgreymatter · 13/10/2018 13:06

Is it the waste you have a problem with or the drinking?

I bring a sports bottle if water everywhere (just incase) and carry a reusable coffee cup so if I get a coffee somewhere, I use my own cup. What's wrong with that?

AtrociousCircumstance · 13/10/2018 13:06

Being annoyed by other people drinking Grin

MammyHester9116 · 13/10/2018 13:10

I got in the habit of carrying water with me when I was breastfeeding. I found I got very thirsty and got headaches if I wasn't drinking enough.
(I also ate lots of cake and chocolate because I needed the energy! 😛)
Also a teacher and get a dry throat very easily so have a bottle of water on my desk all the time.

autumnleaves1234 · 13/10/2018 13:10

But didn't you know that if you carry a coffee cup wherever you go it tells people how very very busy and very very important you are. You see you're too important and busy to sit down and have a coffe or cold debunk

autumnleaves1234 · 13/10/2018 13:10

Cold drink even

Original poster
LittleBookofCalm · 13/10/2018 13:11

Annoyed by the cup of a stage, the money spent, why is it even necessary, just on trend I think

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thegreatbeyond · 13/10/2018 13:11

I was working and out of my house for up to 16 hours a day for a big chunk of my last pregnancy. I would have died without water with me!

ShadyLady53 · 13/10/2018 13:12

I’ve got a health condition that means I have to drink 4 litres of fluid per day or I faint and get tachycardia. I’m a cardiac outpatient and this was part of my consultants recommendedations along with a sports drink and some crisps if I have a faint or my blood pressure is dangerously low as it is most days. Now not everyone has my health condition I admit but a fair few people that you see eating or drinking in public could have a health condition.

Most of my family are insulin controlled diabetics and if their blood sugar goes too low they will be seen in public drinking fresh orange juice and eating a couple of digestive biscuits. Sorry if it offends. We’re just trying to stay alive, or would you rather we spend our lives indoors, never leaving the house and living off benefits? I’ve had members of the public criticise me (even when I was a size 8 20 something) about eating crisps and glugging Gatorade after I’d collapsed and started having tachycardia in the Trafford Centre (“all that junk isn’t good for you you know! You’re asking for a heart attack!”). And I can recall a mother on here facing a load of abuse for trying to get her diabetic baby to eat some jelly babies when she recognised he was having a hypo.

Don’t forgot to thank your lucky stars while you’re judging away. You don’t know people’s individual circumstances.

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LittleBookofCalm · 13/10/2018 13:12

Annoyed by the cup wastage

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Fluffy40 · 13/10/2018 13:12

Only necessary in the really hot weather imho

TonTonMacoute · 13/10/2018 13:13

It all stems from a misunderstanding. It is true you need consume 2litres of water per day, but the most effective way of doing this is from your food. If you eat properly, then the amount of water you need to drink on top of this is quite small.

Having said that, it doesn’t particularly worry me if people want to spend every waking minute swigging water.

burningsage · 13/10/2018 13:13

But some people these days are genuinely busier. I have days at work where I honestly have gone 5 hours without a drink as I'm dealing with so many different things that I don't have the chance. So I might get a bottle of water on my way home as I've got a headache. Neither of my grandmothers worked at all.