Adult Children by Stephen Beals for January 30, 2025

we all do, Todd… no worries.

My mom once answered a phone survey. One of the questions they asked was “Do you often drink before noon?” She said “Yes”, even though she hardly ever drinks alcohol. (They didn’t ask what she drank).

You definitely have a problem, Todd. Put your empty bottles in the recycling.

And you’re taking way too many bathroom breaks…

My wife has a drinking problem with water bottles. She never finishes them, she just abandons them throughout the house. I collect them and top them off from the kitchen faucet and put them back on the shelf. We have a deep well on acreage and a filter system so the water is most likely more pure than the Spring water she buys.

Enjoy “Cuppy” character as expression changes. Especially final panel with furrowed eyebrows!

I read an article about microplastics in bottled water so now on the off change I need to buy one I think about all the microplastics I’m ingesting. Filtered tap water is better.

Is Todd the only employee who drinks water while at work? I doubt it, so why not install a filling station like many schools have done? And then offer employees a discount on personal water bottles that are safe to use.

I have an insulated cup. I drink filtered water from the refrigerator. More importantly, I avoid spilling it on my computers. I call it my adult sippy cup. ☺️

A very long time ago I bought my first Camelbak from a postage stamp sized advert in the back ages of Bicycling magazine. They now make bottles and we use them when needed. At the clinic I have a Camelbak bottle and a big mug use for tea. We do have paper cups for patients to use, but we all have a mug/cup and bottle.

Plastic water bottles is a big pet peeve of mine. One of humanity’s more stupid ideas in a long list of stupid ideas.

I figure that I drank water from Lake Erie and the Niagara River in the 1960s and 70s when both were awful and it didn’t kill me. Therefore, city water is fin in my books. Don’t need bottles or filters.