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

Wonder if it’s slightly generational. I’ve noticed my (boomer) parents and their siblings don’t have water with meals. I hate eating without water to hand. Then again I don’t carry a water bottle everywhere whereas my kids do, so they’re even more hydrated!

I think it’s what happened as a child and continuing habit. Those kids where parents put drinks in front of them at meals believe they ‘need’ a drink with their meal. Kids of parents who didn’t don’t understand the concept. Both myself and my kids were in the second category, however one of mine had disabilities such that for much of childhood they needed a thickened liquid with any solids, and were the only one with such a drink at meals. So my kids believe there is something medically wrong with people who ‘need’ to drink with a meal 🤣.

The reason I can't sleep is that I'm currently a guest at a no beverages household.

I saw this coming and managed to sneak one can on diet coke into my handbag on the way here but I need to make it count. Unsure when best to drink it to minimise risk of death by dehydration.

My head hurts so much. I'd have had a big iced water by now.

I'm constantly thirsty/ have a dry mouth and am ways drinking water. Never alleviates it. Drives me mad. I have to drink when eating but know many people don't 🤷

I genuinely only get thirsty in hot, sunny weather or if I’ve exerted myself.
It’s not a feeling I get otherwise.

I can imagine myself screaming at some point today.

I guess people who don't feel thirst don't understand that it's torture for people who do.

You shouldn’t drink with a meal, but before or after it.

Carrying around bottled water was not a thing for many of us, purely because it wasn't avaible, but mostly because marketing people knew that at that stage, people weren't so gullible as to believe they would drop dead from dehydration if they didn't drink every 2 minutes.
It's a whole rip-off industry, but hey, go for it if you are daft enough
But hydration requirements very between individual, so @OptimismvsRealism , don't be so daft as to 'lose sleep' over this. I mean, if you want to lose sleep over anything, why not the state of the country, or the potential for ww3, or the state of prisons, or domestic violence, or child abuse, or the cost of living...
Wtf?

I find it odd that people drink all the time. People have water for driving, water with meals, water when sat at the desk, water watching tv

its an obsession that seemed to start in the late 90s and has grown. It can be dangerous to drink too much fluid.

id just have a drink of squash a couple of times a day, about a pint and 2/3 coffees.

people walk round constantly with a drink in their hand.

@OptimismvsRealism

I still don't understand why you just can't get a glass of water (okay, it may not be iced).
Why would you have to boil the tap water?

😂 my mum is exactly the same. We once went to the Lakes and walked all day. I needed the loo several times because I drink lots of water. She didn’t go once! How do they cope??

'Dangerously dehydrated'...

My mum and mil are always complaining about being constipated. They hardly seink anything at all. I have never seen mil drink water. Ever. It's tea or coffee.

Of course people will feel the sensation of thirst. If though you are constantly feeling thirsty then you may have an underlying health condition- get it checked out

I never ever ever feel thirsty. I have coffee in the morning and then tend to sip a bottle of water in work but I rarely refill it and I’ll often forget to drink it. I have a glass of water with my dinner (or wine if we’re out), but it’s not cause I’m thirsty.

We don’t have beverages in the house either; we all drink tap water (or beer)!

Why can you just get yourself a glass of water?

There is not real need to drink water in the volumes that people drink it today, it is just a fad caused by advertising from the bottled water companies.

People drink too much then need to go to the toilet all the time to rid their bodies of the excess.

I belong to the generation that did not drink during the day, and it is a better habit to be in

Because the water here comes off a private well and isn't safe to drink.

Can you not boil yourself one then?

I prefer a drink when I'm eating, even soup which my mother said I shouldn't need a drink with because it's liquid already.

Mine too! "The soup is the drink" no it isn't!

My parents have a snooty idea that tiny drinking vessels are superior. So many times I've seen my Dad come in from work or gardening etc saying how thirsty he is only to knock back a thimble full of water.

I have Sjogrens so I need liquid all the time especially for a meal but I've always been like that, even as a child.

People do drink more liquids though, you can't go anywhere without seeing people with coffee cups or water bottles so drinking more has caught on (as a good thing).

I don’t understand what you mean boil the tap water? We don’t have bottled water ready for guests. But actually have been icked out at the thought of tap water lately so maybe I should! Just, the plastic!

I drink a LOT and don’t understand my family who don’t 😄 my kids literally never ask me for a drink 😄 I get actually angry if I get thirsty. Can be hungry forever but thirst is another thing. I was tested 3x for diabetes as a small child and I’m totally fine, just thirsty 😄

I only drink teas, water and the occasional coffee really. Maybe a champagne on occasion but am allergic to alcohol so shouldnt!

I drink very little, I know it's not good for me, and I often have a headache later in the day as I haven't had enough fluid!
I've always been the same and find it hard to change..

I drink a fair bit throughout the day! Always have a glass of apple juice to follow my meals. Drink plenty of herbal tea throughout the day and occasionally water. I get dehydrated really easily and feel thirsty quickly. Have always had the thirst thing from childhood - no diabetes here!