[MR] Fwd: FW: Waterbearing going forward.

[Baroness Bianca the Inquisitive]

Actually, I was at Border Raids this past weekend, and the water bearers
there had the old straw in a gallon jug system.  I, of course, didn't
partake of their water, but looked for my own people with squirt bottles,
and often left the field to go to my pavilion to drink from my own supply.

I'm surprised the number of people who think it's ok to drink from a straw
after someone else has....yuck!

In Service,
Baroness Bianca the Inquisitive
Deputy Seneschal - Kingdom of Meridies
Secretary - Society Grand Council

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Vels inn Viggladi <velsthe1 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> There is only one Kingdom that still offers hydration by means of
> contact-straws. The other 18 have pretty uniformly moved to non-contact
> bottles for their Kingdom Waterbearing activities. There was a great hoopla
> over that at Gulf Wars this past year, and the year before.
> So, the Gulf Wars staff decided that water bearers from that hold-out
> kingdom were not allowed to offer water to any fighter other than those from
> that same kingdom. Who did it hurt? No one in specific.
> However, things came to a head later in the war when waterbearers from the
> contact-straw kingdom were confused as to whether they could give water to
> fighters from other kingdoms when those fighters actually asked for it. Then
> suddenly they were "refusing" to provide hydration to anyone but their
> Kingdoms fighters.
> <shrug> These things happen.
> The more I think about this, the more I think this might almost be touched
> with a more than a little rational thought regarding a problem with fighters
> being refused water (and possibly having more direct heat injuries) because
> some group of waterbearers may be "blacklisted" because another kingdom does
> not like how they offer water.
>
> More Society level rulings come out of stupidity at Gulf Wars.... Maybe we
> should ban Gulf Wars... <KIDDING>
>
>
>
>
> Vels
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