| Friday, May 21, 2004 |
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Nothing like the taste of plastic to keep you goin'
I read an article once about how a week-old water bottle (as in, been used everyday and hasn't been watched) carried enough bacteria to shut down a city's water system...relatively speaking, of course. So being the incredibly responsible person that I am, I decided to go wash out my water bottle this morning, as it's going on at least two weeks with out a wash. Always being one for extremes, I went to turn on the hot water at the sink and noticed something much more enticing: the hot water feature on the coffee machine. Ooh!, I think. If hot water helps to kill germs, than scalding water much annihilate all germs within a twenty-block radius! I'm so brilliant! [Now, I know what you're thinking...don't worry, I'm getting there.] So in goes the scalding hot water into my water bottle. Then in goes my water bottle. Huh? Yes, I admit it. It failed to occur to me that a water bottle - with its ever-so-strong plastic - might not be able to withstand that kind of temperature. We're not talking about a 'real' water bottle here...it's the kind that comes out of a vending machine. So my water bottle starts collapsing inwards. And I stop pouring water. Now I'm staring at a lopsided, half-shriveled, yet still usable water bottle. My water now tastes like melted plastic, although it doesn't bother me enough to go buy a new water bottle. I wonder if the plastic chemicals that I'm drinking are more harmful that the germs that I was trying to kill... Liberated at 3:41 p.m. | |
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