The Water Bottle Incident

We spend most Sunday evenings, with all our kids and their kids. We have dinner, watch a movie, play games, that sort of thing. We enjoy this time together.

Tonight as we were waiting for dinner to finish cooking, we all settled down in our family room area. My husband brought down 2 water bottles, one for him and one for me, as the kids already had theirs.

I opened my water bottle took a few sips and then put it down on the couch next to my leg. My oldest daughter was coming down the stairs, with a water bottle, which she proceeded to open and take a sip of. She sputtered, made a sour face and told us that, that bottle was definitely not hers, as it had some sort of flavoring in it. She set it down on the chest to my right. 

Sometime later, I reached over to get a drink, and since I usually put my drinks on the same spot as the water bottle was, I grabbed it and took a big swig of it, made a sour face, swallowed the icky liquid, and put it back where it was, thinking no one was the wiser that I had also added my germs to the bottle.

Well, in the end the joke was on me, as my daughter who had taken the first drink from the bottle, spit her mouth full back into the bottle, and I literally drank her spit. They had a good laugh, we all did.

I still wonder who that bottle belonged to in the first place, since no one claimed it, hopefully it hadn't been stuck under some couch cushion for months.

I for one will be more careful of where I put my drinks from now on.