A Conundrum...non-cancer related.

I'll start this one with a disclaimer. At times it may seem like this is the willy nilly ramblings of a madman. But trust me, dear reader, I will get to a point. Here we go...

When I'm done drinking a bottle of water, it leaves me thirsty. Does that make sense? We're told that water is the ultimate thirst quencher. But, seriously, when I'm done I have cotton mouth. This just doesn't make sense to me. I do, however, have a theory.

I am a southern boy, born and raised 15 minutes south of Atlanta. Which is the home of Coca-Cola. I was raised drinking coke. I even used to have a coke for breakfast, sometimes and nothing else. Since I was a young boy, I have drank coke...or atleast some incarnation of carbonated beverage. There was a cherry coke phase, there was a mello-yello phase, there was a surge phase, there was a Jolt cola phase, (man that stuff was good), and finally a Mountain Dew phase. But throughout, you could always count on a cold refreshing coke. They always say that you shouldn't drink such beverages, because they could never truly quench your thirst because of all the sodium and carbonation and yummy high fructose corn syrup. But, when I, your intrepid writer, drink a coke...my thirst is quenched. Seriously....no cotton mouth or anything. I'm thirsty...I drink a coke...I am no longer thirsty. So, here's where you come in. I need your opinion on my hypotheses.

Hypothesis #1: Water leaves me wanting more because that is it's nature. There ain't much to it, so it simply wets your whistle while you drink it, but when you're done, your whistle is no longer wet. There's more to carbonated beverages like Coca-Cola, so they satisfactorily quench my thirst.

Hypothesis #2: Water would satisfactorily quench my thirst. But, due to years of conditioning myself with high sodium highly carbonated drinks like coke, my body craves such bad things and nothing else will do....kind of like a crack addict. You get started and you can't stop.

I will reserve my thoughts until you can have your say...if you even give a shit. I don't know...maybe you all think I'm a loony. I don't know...whatever...have at it. if you will.

Oh and happy 4th!!!