The Hydration Generation

How much of the day do you spend away from a beverage?

Seriously.

If you leave the house, do you have one of these?



Or these?



Or (heaven forbid) these?



In recent years, it seems we feel this need to constantly have a beverage on hand. As this occurred to me, I remembered spending all morning in classes in high school and college without drinking a thing.



You'd have a soda with lunch, then head to class all afternoon without water or Coke or even a juice box. When you got home (or back to your dorm), you didn't run for the refrigerator like you'd been crawling across the desert, desperately seeking a drop of water all afternoon.



Bottled water was around when I was a kid, but we didn't seem to be as freakish about drinking tap water. We drank out of water fountains...



Sinks...




Heck, we'd even drink from the garden hose if it saved us a trip back inside the house.



Why do we always feel the need to have a drink with us? Is it to look cool like Mary-Louise Parker in Weeds?







(No wonder she's so skinny...she's on a liquid diet!)

Do you think our bottles, cans, and cups are our security blankets? Can you leave the house without a beverage?