Water Worries
Sep. 29th, 2003 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothSince drinking too much fruit juice makes me sick, and pop is expensive and supposedly not very good for you this week, and diet pop and tea and the like are not only expensive and supposedly not good for you, but also unspeakably vile, I've been trying to just drink water when I'm thirsty.
At work this isn't a problem -- the only problem is resisting the lure of overpriced coffee.
At home, it's more of a struggle. The water from the bathroom is sort of drinkable, in small amounts, but the water from the kitchen tap is brown and stinky. I bought a filter pitcher to try to fix that, but that experiment has been declared a complete failure after several stages of agony: The part where the filter looked like it was doing nothing, the part where the filter looked like it was doing something but drinking the water made me ill, and the part where the pitcher froze solid and gave off a foul odor.
So I'm reduced to buying tapwater from the grocery store for a buck a gallon. Gaah. And it still tastes bad, but it's the 'this water has been sitting in a plastic container' bad and not 'this water is contaminated with sewage and/or heavy metals' bad, at least. Sort of brings back memories of summer camp.
At work this isn't a problem -- the only problem is resisting the lure of overpriced coffee.
At home, it's more of a struggle. The water from the bathroom is sort of drinkable, in small amounts, but the water from the kitchen tap is brown and stinky. I bought a filter pitcher to try to fix that, but that experiment has been declared a complete failure after several stages of agony: The part where the filter looked like it was doing nothing, the part where the filter looked like it was doing something but drinking the water made me ill, and the part where the pitcher froze solid and gave off a foul odor.
So I'm reduced to buying tapwater from the grocery store for a buck a gallon. Gaah. And it still tastes bad, but it's the 'this water has been sitting in a plastic container' bad and not 'this water is contaminated with sewage and/or heavy metals' bad, at least. Sort of brings back memories of summer camp.
