I think there's a couple reasons for the popularity, especially among women. One was already mentioned, saving the planet nonsense. Second is fitness/excercise virtue signaling...they figure if they wear leggings and carry a water bottle, people will assume they are on their way to/from the gym and are like,all super healthy and stuff. I think the yoga craze started that.
Also, people (again mostly women) heard that you needed to drink 8-10 glasses of water a day, and I'm pretty sure someone said it would make you skinny. 9 out of 10 women would eat white dogsheitt if someone told them it would make them skinny. The rest is fashion- its fashionable to carry a water container (set to change in type and color, just like clothes) and god forbid your average female is missing an essential fashion accessory. I think that covers it.
Yep. It’s kinda like the dumbass DemoRat’s that wear their Corona Mask everyday and everywhere.
Even in their car when driving around by themselves. 🤪
I keep a case of bottled water in the truck. Drink a bottle when I’m thirsty. Or drink an extra before I go fix fence. Or get in the tractor.
But as to Slum’s point of this thread, it’s mostly just virtue signaling by young dumbasses.
Never saw anyone do that back when I was in College.
If someone was carrying a drink, it was a can of Coke or a Big Gulp.
And like Slum mentioned, when we were kids, we spent all day hunting or fishing, or when we were kids playing football or baseball without carrying any water.
