We are drinking too much water in this country. The "Big Water" lobby has been doing their job because for the last 10 years or so, we Americans have been drinking a lot.
If you walk across the street, open a letter, or vacuum the carpet someone will tell you that you better have/take a water. I'm going to the Moon, take a water. I'm breaking up with my girlfriend, have a water. I'm picking up my son's birthday cake at Baskin-Robbins, take a water.
Water, water, everywhere, and not enough to drink.
In like, the end of 1979 I saw a news magazine type show on NBC that was doing a story on Perrier. This was amazing to me. These crazy French people bottle water? And sell it!? I've never heard of such a thing. Who would do that? Water is free, why would you want to pay for it? Why don't you put some poop in a plastic bag I'll take it with me. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
A couple of months later I'm at the movies watching American Gigolo. Richard Gere, who is the American Gigolo sits down at an outdoor cafe (don't get me started on how crazy that was at the time to me) and guess what? He orders a Perrier! What the? I know what that is, its water! The American Gigolo, the guy that hangs upside down while working on his Swedish phrases and gets to have sex with that gap-toothed angel Lauren Hutton (I wanted to marry her but long before I saw her in American Gigolo, if you haven't seen her in Paper Lion, uhhmmm, can't type now, biting the fleshy part of my hand) then blows my mind by asking for a lime with his Perrier! Stop it, I can't take it!! You're paying for water and you're putting lime in it? First of all, what's a lime? You are off the reservation my friend. What's next, A1 Steak Sauce on your Big Mac?
The whole point is this: I'm not suggesting we stop drinking water, but please, drink less. And for heaven's sake, don't put a lime in it!
Kurt
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