How on earth did everyone get so dehydrated? You see people with water bottles everywhere—and they gulp them desperately, as if they’ve just crossed a desert.
If you went back in time and told me people would someday BUY water I would have thought you were crazy. I mean, it literally falls from the sky. You can fill your tub for just pennies. Yet every supermarket now has an aisle labeled, “Water.” Vitamin water, flavored water, energy water, athletic water, and water from secret springs in some remote mountainous area.
Some say tap water is too
polluted. But there’s evidence that’s what you’re actually getting in some
bottled waters anyway! And according to the
Mayo Clinic, bottled water and tap water are pretty much governed by similar
safety standards.
In
restaurants when I say I’d like some water I’m asked if I want sparkling water,
mineral water, or lemon water. None of the above. I just want tap water. When I
say this, I am stared at as the freakazoid creature I clearly am, for drinking plain water.
I know we all need to be
adequately hydrated. But you don’t see newsreels about millions of people in
the 1950s, let’s say, collapsing on the street because they couldn’t find their
water bottle. You waited. You got home
and had some water. Or you found a drinking fountain. But you were able to go
hours without guzzling H2O, and people did just fine.
Or for Yosemite Sam to crawl up
to our door, parched from crossing the Mohave Desert eight times, begging for a
canteen. Of course, he’ll want it filled with Evian, perhaps with a twist of lemon.
And you are welcome to drink all the water you like as you happily curl up with one of my books.
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