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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ime the older generation doesn’t understand the constant need to drink water. I swear some of my family are really camels. 8 8oz glasses of water a day was a recommendation within the last 2ish decades and I think has been debunked.

Normally I’d say that they view you having a glass of water out as leaving a mess. But that doesn’t explain the water bottle. That just seems vindictive because it’s not in their line of site and it’s not like they are missing a glass that needs to be washed.[/quote]

The weird thing, to me, is going into a guest rooom and removing anythjng of a guest’s.  That’s a strange boundary violation even for a daughter in law.

I must be one of the old camel people, though, and I am only 51.  Honestly, this idea that we must be constantly sipping all day so we don’t get “dehydrated” is ridiculous unless you’re in Death Valley or something.  As a kid, I think I drank from a hose maybe twice during a summer day, at most.  It went to one water fountain a day and had a good few gulps at a time.  We certainly were not allowed to have water bottles with us.  At my first job, no one kept drinks in the desk all the time.  You maybe went and got a cup of tea in the break room or something.  At home, we had drinks at the table, in the kitchen, or while watching TV after dinner.  Drink glasses on surfaces all day?  No way.

I had an aunt like OP’s IL’s.  You might offer someone a drink when they arrived for a visit and they have it in a coaster till then finished it, but then it was out way and no one hit a drink until the next meal or unless they went into the kitchen and drank something there.  Glasses would be swept up immediately when finished.

It’s not personal, OP.  They just don’t drink all day.[/quote]

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