25th March, 2004
Drinking Water
Wandered into the break room at work today to refill my water bottle at the cooler. Usually, I’m pretty zoned out and don’t notice much about the water cooler bottle (except on occasions when some scurvy bastard has – once again – drained the last of the water and left the empty bottle on the cooler*) but today, I noticed that if you look at the top of the bottle (when it’s on the cooler), one can see a dire warning, written in all caps: FOR DRINKING WATER ONLY. NOT TO BE USED FOR ANY OTHER LIQUID. Visions of my tobacco chewing high school friends who used to carry around Mountain Dew bottles, known as “spitters”, as a holding vessel for their nasty tobacco-tinted spit entered my head when I started wondering just what the hell kind of liquid was stored in one of these bottles to prompt such a warning. Ignorance, as they say, is bliss.
*As a side note, we keep the spare (full) water cooler bottles in the boiler room. This not only keeps the bottles out of the way but also ensures that all newly replaced bottles will only dispense piss warm water for at least an hour following replacement. Yum.
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