We never leave the house without a bottle of water. I don't think anyone here does. We do our best to drink only filtered water because I can't stand the thought of all those plastic bottles going into the trash. Plus the last time I bought bottled water the person jacked the price up even though the price was clearly printed on the bottle. I am just too stubborn to dole out 3 rupees more than anyone else.
So when we packed up to come here back in December we all had water bottles. Rohit and I had those convienent roll up ones. The girls had bite valve ones we had picked up from REI for soccer season. So why did I have to mediate a 15 minute conversation regarding who takes which water bottle to school? Follow along.
The bite valves get moldy so Avva sends BPA free replacements for both girls. Gayatri happily takes her pink Nalgene. Shalini takes her pop-top LL Bean. We go to Bangalore and stay in a hotel. They have small bottles of water in the room. Shalini leaves her water bottle at someone's house so she reuses the bottled water bottle. Gayatri complains and wants one, too. Somehow we only have one. Everyday Gayatri cries for it. Everyday I pack her Nalgene. One roll up gets moldy so into the trash it goes. We go to Japan and take a roll up and the Nalgene. We collect several bottled water bottles and bring them home. We all think it is cool the bottles have Japanese writing on them. Shalini claims one. Gayatri claims another. They lose them. We discover we left our roll up bottle in Japan. I use the pink Nalgene. Rohit continually leaves home without a bottle of water and suffers all day. Avva and Taata come. The LL Bean bottle is returned to us. They buy Shalini a roll up Angry Birds bottle. I saw it once and now she has no idea where she put it. I come back from my flight on Luftansa with a miniature bottled water bottle. Gayatri loves it for 2 days. Avva takes the girls school shopping. Gayatri gets a Thomas the Tank Engine bottle. Loves it for a week. Loves it so much she breaks the top. Shalini picks an extra large bottle then discovers she can't get the top off herself. Shalini returns to the LL Bean bottle. Rohit claims the big bottle that can't be opened in hopes that he can remember to take water with him. Gayatri is back to the Luftansa bottle. Gayatri cries when Rohit takes the big bottle with him to Hydrabad for 2 days. Shalini complains the spout on the LL Bean bottle is rough and it hurts her mouth. She requests the Nalgene. Gayatri screams, "No!" and refuses to share. Shalini reclaims the big bottle. Rohit takes the LL Bean bottle. Gayatri is stuck with the Luftansa bottle until the day she actually drinks the water and proves she needs a bigger bottle. Perhaps I should take the Nalgene now that no one is looking?
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