The Water Run

Last updated on December 1, 2021

I got a new app on my phone, a WATER-DRINK-REMINDER, which has as the name states, the sole purpose to remind me to drink more water throughout the day, because I have the tendency to forget the world around me when I work. Including coffee and tea, my Drinking Goal is 128 Oz of water a day =1 Gallon. I have a physical job and sweating during the summer months seems to be a part of my day. Also, I work out and exercise.

Eight 16 OZ bottles of water are my daily goal. The bottles are waiting for me in a small fridge, also known as the MEN FRIDGE because it holds my husband’s beer and some other “stuff” for when company comes over.

I installed the water app, changed the settings and notifications to my needs, and the next day I got myself ready to drink like a camel.

I wear an earpiece during the day, so I can answer my phone calls hands-free, which allows me to continue working through a conversation. While focusing on a small vanity chair, the sound of running water reminded me that it was time to take a bottle. I went to the bathroom first, and on my way back I opened an ice-cold bottle of aqua and drank half of the bottle all at once.

Over the next hours, I continued to work, pee and drink, each and every time I heard the water noise in my ear. It’s fascinating how it works, I hear the water and I get the urge.

How could I have forgotten? Thirty years ago in a hospital, the nurse came in and asked us if we all had done our “BUSINESS.” I decided it was none of her business and pretty much didn’t answer the questions.

I had just come out alive of an emergency appendix surgery. I was hurting and my mood was not the best. What did it matter if I had to go or not?

Well, it mattered and when the nurse suspected two of us could not -or did not want to answer the question, or perhaps were not able to go, she went to the sink and turned on the water faucet. The running water noise was all the woman in the neighbor bed had to hear, and she got up slowly and went to the bathroom. I followed her. The sound of running water works like magic.

Ten years later, when we moved and the new place didn’t have enough room for our saltwater fish tank, we had the marvelous idea to put the aquarium in our bedroom.

We had to move it four weeks later, I peed myself senseless. The noise of the running water is all it took. I can’t help it!

Sadly, the water app, while a splendid idea, did not work out for me.

DID YOU KNOW:

The more you weigh, the more water your body needs.

If you work out or you are moving all day long, you need to drink more water.