water and cancer is everywhere
Under most circumstances (most being those that don’t include vodka or the occasional cigarette) I try to be a healthy human being. I eat healthy, exercise regularly and hardly ever get sick. Naturally, I’d like my life to stay this way.
But ever fucking time I turn on the television somebody’s talking about something that’s going to give me cancer. First it was Aspartame, which I consume in bulk thanks to being addicted to Crystal Light lemonade and Watermelon Twist Trident. Now it’s Bisphenol-A which is some chemical in plastic bottles (like the pretty pink nalgene bottle I just bought) that supposedly does all kinds of crazy shit to your hormones and reproductive system. But it all depends on who you ask.
I (reluctantly) stopped using my Nalgene bottle and have been filling up a “safe” water bottle at the water cooler in the office to guzzle the 100 or so ounces of water that I drink on a daily basis. So today I shuffled back to the water cooler to refill for the 5th or so time today and notice that on the top of the jug holding the Diamond Springs Spring Water (which is kind of redundant, isn’t it?) is the number 7 inside of the recycle symbol which apparently is like the scarlet letter of the bottled water community.
I decided to dump it out and fill up with water out of the water fountain only that must run through the same pipes as shit because that’s what it tasted like. So fuck. If pretty anything I drink out of is going to give me some kind of disease, I might as well keep drinking out of the pretty pink bottle with a flower on it.