Unforeseen side effect

Posted October 23rd, 2008 by Jeff J. Snider

As you all know, drinking water is healthy. It helps keep your body cleansed, it helps fill you up so you don’t eat as much at meals, etc., etc. I’ve always liked drinking a lot of water, but as part of my effort to get healthy, I noticed that I didn’t drink much water during the work day, which obviously meant I drank less water overall. So I bought a water bottle a month or so ago, and I keep it here on my desk so I can drink as much as I need to. It’s a one-liter bottle (about 34 ounces), and I probably empty it about eight times a day. So that’s over 250 ounces of water, which is a lot, but it’s also probably about right for my weight.

But you know what the experts don’t tell you? It’s a simple little formula:

Water + bladder = gotta pee a lot

Gotta pee a lot = gotta wash your hands a lot

Gotta wash your hands a lot + cold, dry Utah autumn air = extremely chapped hands

Extremely chapped hands = gotta put on lotion like a blasted girl about a hundred times a day

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