Another silly one from me for Friday Fictioneers. Nudging the muse doesn’t always bring literary genius but step by step, right? Thank you, Rochelle, for finding a way to always be there every Wednesday. And thank you to Marie Gail Stratford for the use of your photo. If you want to read more inspired stories, click on the frog. Better yet, add your own 🙂
Want me to put your water bottle in the fridge?
No, leave it there please.
But you have one on the table, too.
Yes, and there are more.
Dude, what the hell?
I made myself a promise to drink at least eight bottles per day, as recommended.
Okay… but this is a little extreme, no?
Listen, if I see it, I drink it. If I don’t, I completely forget.
Seems like an expensive and not very ecological solution.
I tried using glasses. Do you know how many I’ve knocked over? And no worries, I refill these.
Whatever works for you.
Dear Dale,
That logic actually makes sense to me. Hm. Whatever works, right? Fun read.
Shalom and lotsa hydrating hugs,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
That’s what I say. And something I should do!! Must have been a subconscious idea 😉
Shalom and Lotsa love,
Dale
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Jan and I both have large water cups we schlep everywhere. I can’t say I remember as well as he does. 😉
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I should have!
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A bit of plastic logic going on there. In these times you simply set reminders on your phone or watch.
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Well. Of course that could work…😉
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A ha ha haaa…. I anticipated the knocking over bit! 😉
Well, that’s one way of remembering, what can you do?!!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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Glad it made you hahaha! 😉
It’s a thing. I’m a bit of a klutz… xoxoxo
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🤣🤣🤣🤣… makes two of us!!!! 🤣🤣
❤❤❤❤… but graceful klutzes right?!!!!😉❤❤
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Hahaha! Yes! 😂🤣😂🤣
And absolutely, most graceful…😉💞😘
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😂🤣😂🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️
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xoxoxoxo
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Yes, whatever works! 😀
When daughters lived at home, we would periodically have to clean all the water bottles out of their rooms.
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Haha! Right?
Just water bottles? You’re lucky. I find dishes, cutlery, cups…. 😉
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Q
Hey, I wouldn’t worry about the ecological implications of all those water bottles hanging around. I mean, they’re making them anyways. It seems all these eco-peeps are getting their water from someplace other than a waterfall. 😉
Water does a body good. It has helped me keep my complexion for this long. 😉
B
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B,
Well… Let’s just say that I do not want to be a contributor…
It does a body good. And a lovely complexion you have, I say. 😊
Q
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Fair, and I relate. And I do the same. But the reality is, the contribution by humankind isn’t going back the other way at this point in time. Sad to say.
Why thank you. MUAH!
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I know you do. And when the need is there, it’s there and I won’t beat myself up about it. It’s not always possible to carry a refillable hard plastic bottle!
And yeah, humankind is not all on the same level.
MWAH!!
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Have you seen some of these containers? They’re like oil drums! It’s ironic how water fountains were a lot more earth friendly but we can’t have those anymore for obvious reasons.
MUAH!
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They are ridiculous. Worse are the ones that tourists lug to the beach in Cuba or Dominican Republic – ya know, all you can drink means, make it a big one coz I don’t want to haul my fat ass to the bar every five minutes.
I am wild and crazy and still use ’em in the parks. Water fountains, that is.
MWAH!
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They’re the size of oil barrels, they really are. I guess the benefit is that you have your month supply of water AND you can cancel your gym membership as a result of lugging it around.
You ARE wild. They don’t even really have them in public here any longer.
MUAH!
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Buahahaha!!! So that’s how they justify it!
I am. Part of my charm. We don’t have that many… There are two that I know of that I come across during my walks.
MWAH!
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I guess.
I will have to look now and see if there are any in my travels. Maybe I just don’t ‘see’ them because they’re irrelevant to me.
MUAH!!
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I only noticed them because I needed water for Zeke once. And when I was running, I was rather pleased to find one between the baseball and the soccer fields.
MWAH!!
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Oh, there was one at a park I used to visit when I was fostering dogs. They had a water fountain and we would always use it to fill our mobile dish .
MUAH!!
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There ya go! 😉
MWAH!!
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MUAH!!
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Ah yes, the “how to consume more water conundrum” in life. I can relate. Funny I don’t have to remind myself to drink 🍷 What’s up with that? LOL
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Yes… I do have a problem drinking more water. And funny…no problem whatsoever in drinking wine and beer and… Priorities…😏
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I hear that! 🥃
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🥂🍷🍻
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Very logical! If you see it, you drink it. 🙂
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Right? 😉
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Cute, if not fictional, story. I always have a large water cup, with lid, near at all times. Good for you.
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Oh. This is fictional. First off, I hate Dasani watee and I don’t believe in these plastic bottles anyway. I do have a glass with me at all times…. Just too often it’s empty! 😏
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Hey at least he’s efficient and knows all his strengths and weaknesses
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Exactomundo!!
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I keep a yeti filled all the time. Good use of the prompt, Dale. 😁
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But do you drink from it is the question. 😉
I felt I channeled a little John on this one. 😁
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Yes I do. Daughter is a bottle leaver. Everywhere I look there is a half full bottle.
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You know I was teasing. Haha! Your daughter and my sons…
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Of course. Yes can you say conserve kids?
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Indeed, I can…
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I fill my reusable 1 ltr water bottle every morning. By night, it’s empty. I don’t think about it anymore. It just ‘is’.
Love your story though — and I shuddered at the thought of all those plastic bottles until you clarified… 🙂
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1 litre per day? Hmmm… Is that adequate? Represents only 4 cups 😉 Course, that’s better than many!
And no worries… I would never! (Reiterating my clarification – and in reality, I use a glass at work and home and a refillable bottle elsewhere 😊
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Dang! There I was thinking it was 8!!!! Oh dear. Me and math.
time to drink and refill! 🙂
Thanks for setting me straight!
and ps — I do refill it many days… just not as arduously as I now realize I must! 🙂
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Sorry honey… Gonna have to fill that baby twice 😉
No worries. I’m here to help 😉
Goes to show, doesn’t it?
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Sounds sensible to me 💜
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I think so 🙂 🧡
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Sounds like that logic makes sense to most everyone. I’m very much that way: “Out of sight, out of mind.”
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I’m that way too. Though I won’t start putting bottles everywhere! (Besides the fact, I would never buy these…)
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Connie doesn’t leave the house without a large mug of water. (It’s usually still 3/4 full when we get back home).
P.S. – I refill those bottles too.
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Better than nothing, right? Intentions have to count doe something!
Good to know. 😉
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Delightful! And I understand about knocking over glasses. I have to take some sort of pill after every meal so I drink a large glass of water (hopefully not turned over) with them and call it my water for the day- plus the water in my coffee. i hope that counts.
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Thank you, Ina! I’ll take delightful any day!
That definitely helps.. they say the coffee doesn’t but hey, I count them!
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Oh dear, drinking eight bottles of water. Then I would spend most of my time in the loo. Well, an inspiring place.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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That is a rather annoying side-effect, to be sure!
Thank you! And to you, as well!
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Yep, whatever works! Though … at least they keep refilling the bottles!
(BTW, I didn’t ‘see’ you at the froggy linky thingy. Did I miss it?) xx
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That’s what I say… Though I’m sure putting nudges on my phone would be a lot easier…
(That’s right. I did not link.) xoxo
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Good intentions tend to fall by the wayside. How much will be drunk before it becomes too much, or is it just a tiny sip now and again?
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Ah well… An effort is being made. Maybe the habit will be created and he won’t have to leave reminder bottles everywhere…
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Gosh, 8 bottle a day. But what size bottle? I have a bottle beside me always, and when I go out (even to shops) but I’ve no idea how many times I fill it. Less times in winter than in summer, I do know cos I’m drinking my hot drinks
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“They” say 8 glasses of 8 ounces each… 🙂
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I think the bottle I use at my desk are half-litres. Meant for kids. Says *Future Astronaut* on it. Yep, that’s me
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🙂 half-liters = 2 cups so, one quarter of the suggested amount 😉 I love that you use a Future Astronaut bottle!
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I bought it cos it fits in my coat pocket whereas my big ones don’t. She thinks it’s hilarious. But then she knows in behavioural patterns I’m a whole lot younger than her
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There ya go! As if you needed justification 😉
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🙂
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🙂
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And if you read my bio on Amazon you’ll find that I am a frustrated astronaut!
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Are you? I’ll be darned!!
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I wanted to be the first woman in space. But Valentina WhateverHerNameWas beat me.
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Dang her! 😉
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🙂 Yea. Absolutely.
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Sounds like someone who throws themselves into their latest fad before finding something else. Best to just go with the flow 🙂
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That… or they are really trying to up their water drinking 😉
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Knocking over water glasses is one thing, but knocking over wine glasses is a different matter!
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That would be unforgivable! 😉
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Who’s knocking over wine glasses? Someone here? I’m panicking!
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Nooooo! Not here!!!
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WHEW!!!! 🥴
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LOL!! 😁
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Thunder, love the environmental take!
Excellent! ❦❦
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Thank you, Sweet Sorceress! 💞
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