[MR] Fighter Sanitation re: Waterbearing

[Joshua Thomas]

Attach 16 gauge steel thermoses beer helmet style and then you can suck too.


Throw a few peices of randomely dagged fabric and you pass the ten foot
rule.

Store the thermoses in giant viking horns and only the drinking tube needs
to be documented.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:21 PM, <scribe0002 at aol.com> wrote:

> Greetings to the lists from Gisela in Sacred Stone,
>
> Given the discussion on the Merry Rose and so many other venues of the
> SCA about the change to the Waterbearing Offices and Guilds in the
> Society, I wanted to mention an experience I had this weekend.
>
> I occasionally help with waterbearing at events. In the last two weeks
> I've been to two events in the East where I helped and both were
> incredibly hot days.
>
> At one event, not a single fighter who took drink from my hand placed
> the straw or mouth of the bottle in their own mouths with one exception
> . . . a new fighter who was corrected by everyone with him.
>
> "Don't do that! Squirt, don't suck, dude. I don't want to drink your
> backwash!"
>
> Another added, "And what misses and runs down your face and neck will
> cool you the h3!! down."
>
> And another added ominously, "Besides, Raven'll kill you if she catches
> you." (Raven is the head of the Waterbearers' Guild in the East. Think
> Morwenna only shorter and Italian. Bulldog instead of Doberman. Just as
> serious with just as many teeth.)
>
> At the next event, three different fighters, all experienced fighters,
> popped the straw or pop-top right into their mouths to drink. Done
> before I had a chance to say anything. Hadn't thought I'd need to watch
> whitebelts, for goshsake. Each time I took the nearly full water
> bottles off the field and it took longer for others to get drinks
> because of the thoughtless (not malicious, just not thinking) actions
> of these gentlemen.
>
> Raven uses a system similar to what you'd find in a bar or restaurant,
> setting up tubs with sanitizer tablets, cleaning bottles and caps
> between uses regardless. I know Morwenna's procedures are also
> stringent and that she teaches those waterbearers who work with her to
> not reuse a bottle that's been in someone's mouth. Ask her about the
> 8-year-old who dressed down a knight for putting lips to bottle someday.
>
> Still, in this day of incredibly dangerous contagions and food-born
> bacteria that resist all medical treatment, why do some folks still
> think it's ok to have contact while drinking from a common container?
>
> Please, folks, make an effort to break yourself of this habit if you
> have it. Encourage others to change their habits. If you have no
> concern for your own health, consider others' . . . and consider the
> efforts of those bringing refreshment to you and the extra steps you
> cause them when they're performing their service conscientiously.
>
> Be well, play hard, drink often and Squirt, dude!
>
> ~gise
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