Okay? Did you win a point? |
It's weird you're still defending this like it's a normal rational thing to do. |
I agree! People who bite their bottles and leave teeth marks on the straw don’t really care for stuff they own. Or the other poster whose kids leave them in a planter so that they don’t have to carry it. So they probably also won’t miss it either if it’s lost. |
It's completely normal. But make your case to the OP by calling her daughter a thief and a liar. |
Do you let your kids bite their water bottle straws? Or do you get grossed out by it? My kids do that to their water bottles and but I will still drink from it! |
I think leaving it on the table at a school is a different thing. 10 mins too. That’s not right. But in the planter, I think cleaning crews will remove it. They can’t make many rounds and want to keep things tidy |
Of course. Chewing is a form of stress relief. The inability to effectively chew is also associated with cognitive decline. I think this, in part, explains the poster strangely obsessed with the chewed straw. https://www.newcastle.edu.au/hippocampus/story/2023/can-chewing-help-manage-stress |
The cleaning crews are dropping that straight into their waste bin. |
My own chewed straw is not equal to a straw found on the street that I would never put in my mouth. What other filth do you put in your mouth? Do you have any standards? |
The straw was cleaned per OP. Not everybody is as wasteful as you. |
+1 to all the above |
Pp. my point is that if you chew your water bottle. Especially an expensive hydroflask, you probably don’t care for it too much and have a carefree attitude. It's different from gum where it is meant to be chewed.
I too don’t get why would people chew on their water bottle spout or straw if they are not kids. It will look so unsightly. I might chew on a straw for my bottle at McDonald’s but not my hydroflask straw. But it speaks of an attitude that they don’t really care for their own things. So they likely won’t come back for their lost bottles either. |
No one was coming back for it. But yes, that is gross. The dishwasher doesn’t do a great job at sanitizing, unless you have it in sanitize cycle, which you likely don’t. But oh well, too late now. Get a new straw and tell her not to make a habit of picking up things that don’t belong to her. |
My only question is would she have kept it if it wasn’t a HF?
my DD had a large 40oz HF she used for her outdoor sport but sfterwardd she wanted a smaller one in a new color to fit in the bottle holder on her backpack. I was able to buy a new top and matching silicon “boot” for it from Amazon and started using it myself ![]() I probably spent $15 on a new lid and boot. But I did this, not because it was a Hydro flask, but because I didn’t want to throw away a dented, but otherwise useful water bottle. (I prob would have spent that on a generic non insulated one anyway) I’ll add that, I do think my daughter requested aHF because of the namebrand. But I’m OK with that. It helps her drink only water during the day, and it’s a relatively small price for her to feel cool and like she “belongs”, |
You're the only one who would enjoy this used straw. |