I carbonate my own water and drink lots of tea
RalphFurley
joined 2 years ago
Today was a good day. Watched my NFL team win a spot to the Superbowl in a bar and all I drank was soda. No drink, no smoke still. Able to see friends in potential trigger environments.
Quit drinking and smoke cold turkey, started one of those 'in 30 days' apps, resubbed and dusted off the Peleton, bought a Fitbit to motivate me.
I'm just happy to not get winded after 30 seconds of minimal heavy lifting or cardio.
One day at a time.
We used our hands
I worked at a restaurant in the kitchen. We had a place on the wall to hang brushes. The GREEN brushes were to be used for food/prep areas only. The white brushes were for cleaning toilets, and other filthy places.
The white brushes were soaked in buckets and rinsed/washed thoroughly in a slop sink, then later, put in the racks that push through the dishwasher conveyor belt that ran through the machine if I recall correctly. It's been more than 20 years
Three times!
I just made an update but TL; DR seems that for me anyway, it was a temporary effect. Will continue to monitor though.
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Thanks for the responses everyone. I will talk to a doctor very soon.
I'm so relieved the comments validated what I thought this was about, and I'm not alone :)
Years ago when I visited Germany (a hotel in Heidelberg), there happened to be another American in front of me at the hotel. He asked for water. The young woman behind the counter, knowing he was American from his language and accent, said: "Would you like any gasoline in your water?"
He was very confused, and I couldn't contain myself, bursting out in laughter. I stepped in and explained, she meant to say "gas" and was asking if he wanted still water or bubbly water. She knew most Americans didn't drink carbonated water, at least then -- a few years later brands like La Croix would sweep the country's soccer moms all over the States.
We Americans think it's funny but then I remember that these people know multiple languages and of course someone is going to get a word wrong here and there.
I also remember the four of us at dinner getting served waters and the waitress was saying "please" as she sat down each one on the coaster on the table. Which my understanding is that she was translating 'bitte' to English and that word has many meanings, one of them meaning please but can be used when your hand something over, if I'm not mistaken.