Here’s this week’s blog topic:
Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and your pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be, and why?
That’s an easy one for me. No, I wouldn’t save my computer, photos, books or papers. Having suffered from thyroid cancer and had extensive treatment, I now have no working salivary glands. So… I would save a lovely cold bottle of water from the fridge! I have to sip, sip, sip water all the livelong day, otherwise much unpleasantness occurs, of which I’m sure you don’t want to know about.
Cheers!
But hey… it’s been two years now and I’m used to it.
Everywhere I go, my trusty bottle of water is with me. Try carrying on a conversation with no working salivary glands, or even eating a sandwich. It just ain’t gonna happen. However, with a bottle of water in one’s pocket, one can sound and look reasonably human. I need to take a sip of water about every 10 minutes all the time I’m awake. This ensures I will never suffer from dehydration, but it also poses another problem…
One has to ensure a ladies’ room is not too far away!
I love music festivals, but surprise surprise, they don’t want you taking in your own water. I used to jettison mine at the last ever minute before I went through the turnstiles, and then waste time queueing up to buy another one from a stall. Now I’ve got into the habit of producing an empty water bottle at the security gate. They look at it with suspicion but they can see it’s empty, so I get to keep it. As soon as I get to the arena I look for the free drinking water tap.
See what other blog-hoppers would save by clicking on the blue button below. What would you save?
Rules:
1. Link your blog to this hop.
2. Notify your following that you are participating in this blog hop.
3. Promise to visit/leave a comment on all participants’ blogs.
4. Tweet/or share each person’s blog post. Use #OpenBook when tweeting.
5. Put a banner on your blog that you are participating.
Stevie Turner 
I know it’s against all conventional wisdom, but I try to limit my water intake on the plane, especially short flights. The trip to the tiny restroom is a pain!
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re lucky that you can limit it. I can’t speak properly without water.
LikeLike
My laptop with pictures and writing etc. A few years ago it would have been my photo albums but times have changed.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Many people have the same idea.
LikeLike
That’s how I take water with me on airplanes. TSA is cool with it now, but the first time I did it, they really inspected the bottle.
Last year at the local fair, the security officer did not want to let me bring in my water bottle, said it could contain alcohol – which they sell at the beer garden, but you’re not allowed to bring with you. So, I finally dumped the water right at the security officer’s feet. His boss had been backing his play up to that point and the kid still wanted to confiscate the bottle (a nice hiking bottle that probably cost $20 new), but his boss made him let me through then. Security has just gotten nuts in recent years and I think, at least here in the US, people need to really have a serious discussion of when enough is enough.
LikeLiked by 1 person
At concerts, the security guys not only think the bottle contains alcohol, they also think you’re going to chuck it at the performers on the stage!
LikeLike
I’ve never tried to bring a water bottle into a concert, although I have gotten harassment from the guards at the movie theater. They want you to buy a $5 soda or a $3 bottle of designer water. But here in Alaska, in the winter, we all wear these big coats, so we smuggle bottled sodas in all the times. They don’t dare to search our persons because in this big concealed carry state they’d not have a lot of people watcihng movies if they started that tyranny.
LikeLiked by 1 person
We sometimes get frisked at festivals and more often than not at airports. Sam likes taking pictures of the artists on stage, but needs a long lens as we’re usually at the back of the arena. Therefore he usually wraps his camera inside a groundsheet and stuffs it at the bottom of his rucksack.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Technically, it’s legal here for private entities to frisk you as a qualificationf for entry and I’ve heard the frisk people at festivals in more “blue” states, but in Alaska, it just isn’t going to work out well for them. We’re too libertarian. The TVS fair searches backpacks, but when they tried to do the whole wand-and-fisk thing, they lost about 30% of their gate that summer and the newspaper was filled with “Stuff it, Tanana Valley State Fair” letters, so they dialed back the tyranny because they can’t stay in business losing that much money. My daughter says it’s common when you do anything in California (deep indigo blue state) and my father in law says it’s not common in Texas (red state sliding toward purple because of a huge immigration from California, mores the pity).
LikeLiked by 1 person
Good for the Alaskans for standing strong. We need to do that over here.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Reblogged this on aurorawatcherak.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for re-blogging.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I can see your point with the water, and that’s a great tip with the empty water bottle (and much cheaper)!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Absolutely!
LikeLike
I had this thought just the other day, not sure why, so hope it isn’t some kind of warning! I couldn’t decide then and not having any luck today either. It would probably be all of the USB drives that have all our work on. Too much hard work on them to leave behind…
LikeLiked by 1 person
But the fire’s raging while you’re searching for all those USB sticks…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Not at all, I know exactly where they are…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for re-blogging!
LikeLiked by 1 person