I know, right? My wife’s like that. She’ll carry a water bottle to drive five minutes to the grocery store, crack it open, drink like 5 milliliters and put it back in the cup holder. What the hell, if you stay hydrated you should be able to go hours without drinking.
I think you need to hang out with different people.
How do I know the bottled water containers are bpa free? Imagine the heartbreak if I started having all those feminine hormone dopplegangers raging through my manly bits; why It’d be chaos!
There are places where the tap water is, well, nasty and I can easily see why people might have bottled water (I’m looking at you Alamagordo, NM with your alkaline water), but I use a refillable water bottle most of the time because a) No one’s out to poison me and b) the tap water where I live is fantastic!
ETA: I have two 25 liter bottles of sealed drinking water stored for emergencies and for that use it makes sense rather than trying to sterilize a large container and seal it, which is in accord with the OP. Worrying about the pee and poison issues isn’t keeping me up at night.
It’s a lot easier, however, to drink small bits throughout the day than to drink a lot at once.
Plus, even if you don’t actually drink it, it’s there in case you do get a bit thirsty. You can’t rely on water fountains anymore, really. At least, I see them a lot less, and my town is behind the times, so I assume they’re even rarer elsewhere.
I don’t carry water bottles with me much, mind you. But it makes sense to me why some people do.
Plus, well, there are a lot more diabetics now.
OMG what if because the normal bottled water is more transparent and easier to not notice, you accidentally knock it over and it spills on you and you’re the Wicked Witch of the West?! You’d melt for sure!
Not a big deal but, this is all you can do.
I check to make sure the seal is on my milk containers, or any jars or cans I buy for this reason, just takes a second. Occasionally I get a “soggy” can of lipton brisk tea when I buy a case, I just squeeze it and water bottles to make sure nothing leaks. Takes a second, nothing more you can do after that. Extremely unlikely that someone will go out of their way to poison your water, and what are the chances even then that you would get the tainted container out of all of the other people? I don’t use the pump soaps in bathrooms that have a slot of refill opening. I remember dudes would piss in there in high school.
If someone with access to your tap water or refillable bottles wants you to ingest pee or poison but are foiled due to you drinking only bottled water, won’t they just mess with your food instead?
That would prevent chapped hands in winter. Piss contains urea, an ingredient in hand moisturizers. (and absolutely nothing harmful) They were doing you a favor.
Then there’d be pee inside your water bottle. Seriously, you worry about this?
Really?! That sounds so odd to me. Definitely never happened (that I knew of) when I went to high school.
Bottled water wastes a lot of energy and results in lots of unnecessary pollution because its heavy and must be transported.
LOL I guess if you have people trying to bump you off, bottled water may be a good safety measure for you.
It’s true that there is a lot of smugness…even on this very board…about the Truth about bottled water. Yes, it’s true that oftentimes it’s just filtered municipal water, but it’s also true that all municipal water is not the same; it can have a very different taste depending on where you live. And some people don’t have municipal water at all…I’ve lived in a couple houses that had their own wells. It’s an erroneous assumption that everyone who buys bottled water for the taste would be just as well off drinking water out of their tap.
What do you think the “mayonnaise” was?
So you’re saying the old saying is true?
“I am high schooler. I play joke. I put pee-pee in your soap. Because I care about you and want you to have beautiful skin.”