A Tale of Water Bottle Woe

[Jameshuh]

This one is slightly embarrassing but I post it just in case others find it useful. Been feeling sick over the past few weeks with symptoms of food poisoning at first I thought it was lettuce (thanks Google) so I cut it out. Then I thought it might be my kids using my phone so I started sanitising my phone and upping my hand washing.

Then I got onto another worry (thanks again Google) I started to be concerned my stainless steel water bottle had a plastic liner. So I look in it and lo and behold I see what looks like plastic coating the inside. I reach in to confirm it and my fingers hit what feels like a layer of grease....then I reach up under the lip and to my horror there is a jelly like layer of bacteria coating under the bottom of the lip (the bit you can't see) it looks like a small slug on my finger. I always rinse the damn thing but it would appear that does absolutely nothing.

Needless to say I am now planning to exorcise my poison waterbottle in the dishwasher and scrub it every day with extreme prejudice .

My takeaways from this sorry episode:

-Anxiety is not all bad, it motivated me to find a cause

-Google is not a substitute for clear thinking and IRL observation

-WASH YOUR DAMN WATERBOTTLE!!!!

[-Charlie]

I like this story James. You and your anxiety outsmarted doctor google. Hope you get to feeling better now that the slug is gone. I’m logging out now…need to go deep clean my water bottle. 😄🙏

[Jameshuh in reply to -Charlie]

😁

[nativeblood]

recognize your strengths and what you did to overcome them in a positive light