Refilling Water

My brother posted this post about Water Bottles on his brand new website today, and it made me think of my fancy, schmancy refillable cup.

For most of last year, I kept seeing a hard plastic cup at Starbucks that I really loved. It was one of their water bottles, but it was re-usable, had a permanent straw and a screw-on cap. It wasn’t anything really fancy, but it worked. It was convenient and could last a long time. And, as I learned while walking, I tend to drink more water when I drink through a straw than when I have to unscrew a cap and manage drinking out of a bottle. Maybe its the extra step. Maybe I’m just that dainty. Maybe I can just work a straw better than a bottle. In any case, I loved these cups.

For some reason, though, I always seemed to come across them at inconvenient times. Either I didn’t have my money, or there was a long line and I was in a rush, or I just thought, “Oh, I’ll have to come back for that.” And every time I came back to get one, they were gone. It even happened when I went to my parents’ for Thanksgiving. They had the new holiday ones out– these have a red and white striped straw instead of the standard green– and even though I had every intention of buying one, I walked out without it. This time, Stagg and I were heading to a movie, and I didn’t want to carry it into the theater with me.

Finally, I found one here in Atlanta, and bought it for a friend for Christmas. Then I told Stagg that I wanted one for Christmas. And I stressed that I REALLY, REALLY wanted one. He knew the whole story, so it seemed like a no-brainer to me. Somehow it came up a few days before Christmas, and he admitted he had completely forgotten. I had some errands to run that day, including a trip to Starbucks where I decided I’d get one for my friend’s daughter, who loved her mom’s and tried to steal it when she opened it. Katie was very excited about getting this present, and just as we were about to pay for it, a thought occurred to me.

“How would you like to give me my favorite present this year, Katie?” She did. And I finally got one of those darned refillable cups. I love it and I use it every day.

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