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

[OptimismvsRealism]

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

No I'm not American. And no you can't reassure me that the well isn't full of rat piss, lead or mercury.

I don't usually drink with a meal. When I am thinking about lunch at work where people bring their own, we all just eat the food, I can't think of anyone sitting in the work canteen with a drink alongside their meal.

This is so alien to me😂 At my work everyone has either a bottle of water, bottle of pop or brew with their lunch.

Presumably the residents are okay? You drank diet coke so you can't be that fussy.

I am just never thirsty. Or at least I don’t recognise that feeling. I do drink a few cans of Diet Coke a day because I like the taste and they give me energy but I have to force myself to remember to drink water. I always eat without a drink. And I can play two hours of tennis and not think about a drink. It is a bit weird, I know.

I think you need to get out more and realise how much variety there is amongst different people! Personally, I find very peculiar those people who carry huge water bottles around with themselves constantly and can’t go for more than about 10 minutes without swigging inelegantly from it. I can’t believe it’s necessary as it only came in fairly recently - nobody drank so much before the 80s or 90s. But I certainly don’t lose any sleep over it.

No, you don't need 'litres' of the stuff. People who drink to much lose electrolytes and can feel more thirsty because of that. You don't need to have water with you at all times if you're healthy.

Have you been tested for diabetes OP? Extreme thirst like you're describing is a symptom.

It's not normal to be desperately thirsty while eating a meal, no. It is pleasant to have a drink to pace the meal and conversation but it shouldn't be necessary to wash the food down... that is odd.

Well I probably drink around 3ltr a day which my PT is happy with. Im the healthiest I’ve ever been. I like to be hydrated 🙂

It is normal for some people. So if you provide a meal and not a drink there's a good chance at least some people have you on their bastard list!

This thread is absolutely bonkers!

I think they eventually turn up at hospital with kidney disease.

I sympathise with you, OP. I take two medications that cause dry mouth and I'm forever drinking. Usually water, but also diet softdrink or cordial, coffee etc. Being deprived of water would absolutely kill me! I had major surgery a few weeks ago and not being able to drink even water for six hours prior to surgery was torture.

@OptimismvsRealism do your hosts never use the well water for cooking or drinking then? What do they drink when in the house?

I don’t sit around thinking about and judging other people’s eating or drinking technique, sounds like a dreadful waste of time. I do judge people for being fat though which is really what matters for their health.

I agree. I’ve never read such a deranged thread. People arguing about drinking water and a ‘no beverage household’. What parallel dimension is this… do they not have taps? There’s a difference between choosing not to drink much water and literally not having any access to any! Lie on the ground outside with your mouth open and hope some dew descends…

Extreme thirst…? Wow

Only on Mumsnet is drinking water unhealthy 😂😂 absolutely bonkers. I had some marathon runner telling me she never drinks…. Well SOME people would argue that marathon running is not healthy either love 😂

I am so surprised by these responses.

My family once had workmen in doing the windows for a couple of days. My parents have a very anxious dog who can be reactive with strangers if they try to approach her (which a ridiculous amount of people do even if told to leave her alone). As such we asked them to stay out of the kitchen. I stayed with her with the door shut and my work laptop set up so I could work.

I offered them tea/coffee twice or three times a day, gave them a plate of a variety of biscuits each morning and a pitcher of cold water (well over a litre)

They repeatedly tried to enter the kitchen to help themselves to things and I reminded them to please shout if they needed something so I could get it for them. I started offering more frequently but they continued saying no until they very suddenly decided they needed something and tried to enter again.

I actually thought they were being unreasonable as in a lot of jobs I've had I've just had to bring my own water bottle/lunch etc and while I'm happy to politely offer things here and there throughout the day, I felt like they were expecting a hotel experience.

Well I am pretty sure it's on here that I got absolutely slated! Told it's absolutely ridiculous to expect them to work without access to fresh water whenever needed and being able to make tea and coffee when they want is a basic expectation. And if they're at the point of having to come ask then I'm not offering enough and being basically a terrible person. And that posters wouldn't be surprised if they did a bad job or didn't give a good rate because of how rude I'd been.

I actually took it on board and decided they're right and so I'm absolutely baffled to read this thread and see pages and pages of people who think that this is normal. To be clear the tap water isn't drinkable unless boiled and the hosts clearly don't drink it either - they just don't drink water at home.

There are no other drinks kept in the home and they are miles away from being able to buy anything. If you do go buy something they'd be offended that their excellent hosting skills are being questioned?

You've got a headache because you're so thirsty (as they only drink tea which they stop doing at 4pm?) and you're sneaking in drinks to not offend them?

But according to a lot of posters here they are being great hosts and you are the one with a problem for needing more than a small mug of water a day?

I really feel like if someone posted the reverse on here (as the hosts) they would be almost unanimously told they are BU. I am so confused.

Lovely. I trust you are perfect in every way?

Work in restaurants and used to have a regular who would order a pre dinner drink of hot chocolate and then another with his meal.

Also my mother wouldn't accept that a person might need a drink with soup as soup is liquid.

Or extreme dehydration and utis once they get older

I’m not big on drinking with meals unless it’s something spicy. I find it fills me up too much.
I actually probably don’t drink enough overall either.

If the well water desperately needs to be boiled before use then go boil some? Boil a big batch and put it in the fridge.
Or better yet go out and buy some drinks.
I find it very hard to believe that

1. there is absolutely nothing to drink and that your hosts don’t drink
2. you are a prisoner in someone’s home and can’t go out and buy yourself a drink.

If 2 is really true you should probably call the Police rather than posting on mumsnet

Who boils tap water lol just drink it.

But I mean yeah kind weird not to have any tea bags of coffee in for guests.

People who get their water from a well! I take it you have no experience of being off mains water?