Head Hurty

[andrewducker]

Last Monday I started taking bottles of dilutable blackcurrant to work. I also took in my own glass (as the plastic cups in the cending machine are teeny). This meant I was drinking a lot more fluid as I didn't have to go to the vending achine every time I fancied a drink.

I took Tuesday off as I had a terrible headache and felt nauseous.

On Wednesday I put these two things together and decided that the water was poisoning me. So I bought 2 litres of water from Sainsburies for 55p and that lasted me through Wednesday and Thursday and Friday morning. I didn't have any headaches and I just didn't drink on Friday afternoon.

I chatted to Hugh about this, and he told me he had a headache too, the day after I visited him, and that he had a sore throat too. So I thought that maybe the headache/water connection was coincidence.

Today I completely forgot about it and just drank from the vending machine water (hI didn't even remember until lunchtime that I wasn't supposed to).

Guess who has a headache now?

I reported this to my rep last week, but apparently it'll just come down the chain as "The water has been tested, it's fine" as it always does.

Comments

[alienspacebat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you can phone environmental health or something and they will come and check it themselves, whether your employer likes it or not.

[allorin.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he could - however, SLAC are extremely anal about that sort of thing, and I'm sure they'd be able to produce evidence of testing that would satisfy EH.

Still, it would be interesting....

As your duly appointed rep, I have mentioned it, and will take it to the next meeting. My cynicism may be unfounded - they might surprise me. I doubt it, but they might. Certainly, the headache angle hasn't been used before, so it might spark something...

Damn. I hate to disappoint my constituents....