01/04/2005: "do i need to be told there's nothing in water but water?"

Why does bottled water have nutrition facts on it? All of the values are 0 because water is just plain water. I could understand if you had that flavored water, or the other versions of bottled water with whatever else in them, but for plain old bottled water? Do I need to know that there are 0 calories, 0 grams of fat, 0 milligrams of sodium, 0 carbohydrates and 0 grams of protein?

I don’t know – I was just sitting here looking at my bottle of water and I was struck by the idiocy of the label.

The party last night wasn’t that bad – the food was good and I got a drink out of it. The chocolate moose dessert though had something to be desired. I didn’t know moose could go bad, but I think that it did. I pity the people that took more than a taste because I’m willing to bet they didn’t feel all that good afterwards.

Last night also reminded me how it’s kind of funny how we sometimes ignore our first impressions in order to try to give people a chance. A while ago I was introduced to someone who ended up getting involved with another friend of ours. At the time, I just felt like I didn’t like him – I couldn’t put my finger on anything, but I didn’t like him and I definitely didn’t trust him. It was reinforced when I heard that the only reason he was after our friend was to get into his pants. However, I waved it off and tried to be friendly, especially after they got into a relationship, but he ended up being a fairly shady kind of character and managed to wreck another couple’s relationship in the process of fucking over our friend.

I bring it up because both he and our friend were at the party last night – and the more I saw of him, the more and more I was like “oh yeah, you were so right…” There was the fact that he stared at the table we were all sitting at, the phony socializing he did as he went from table to table, and of course the fact that whenever we’d go outside (I didn’t smoke, but everyone else does so I’d stand and chat) he would hover just behind us until someone would give him a dirty look.

Unfortunately I left early and missed it when he opened his mouth and said something to our friend, otherwise I’m sure I would have had something to say. Though, I guess that it was a good thing I wasn’t there – since it’s ultimately Moe and Sharon who would get stuck being the middle since they both have their respective stores to worry about.

And I don’t really mean to sound like a high school girl spreading rumors, but I’ve gotten progressively more and more sick and tired of the way this guy has been acting since the breakup. I mean people get hurt in relationships – and I think our friend was on the receiving end of most of the shit (that’s being unbiased – he wasn’t the one who cheated), he has every right to be bitter, but overall he’s been the bigger guy and pretty much moved on.

This guy on the other hand has obsessed over the fact that not only I have, but others have gravitated back to the original friend, he’s become downright mean and rude, he started a fight with one guy, and he’s made all these stupid threats. Not only that, he’s tried to drag Moe into the whole thing and when you fuck with him, you’ve fucked with me.

I’ll give him the fact that he’s fairly good – he knows whose ass to kiss – so for some he seems like the scorned lover or the perfect little manager, but he’s managed to fuck up his little façade enough that even they don’t think of him so highly anymore.

I just hope he gets his head handed to him like he deserves sooner, rather than later.

On a quest to stop eating out so much – Moe and I will be making dinner tonight – I told him that our resolution for the new year should be to not eat out more than once or twice a week. Some weeks when our schedules have been crazy, we’ve eat out for dinner almost every night.

Replies: 2 Comments

I figured as much - it just seems like such a waste of time and effort to put down that there's nothing in it.

jeff said @ 01/05/2005 08:21 AM EST

Bottled water has a nutritional label because it's a food product sold in the United States, and therefore has to have one.

John said @ 01/04/2005 02:59 PM EST

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