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Water WITHOUT lemon, please.

2003-10-03|12:49 a.m.

When you put a lemon slice in ice water, it makes the water taste like dishwater. So then why is it that every restaurant like Friday's, Max and Erma's, and Ruby Tuesday's put lemon in your glass when you order ice water?

I have heard some people say it's because it covers the taste of the water. Come on, water does not taste like anything. You can't cover up the taste of nothing, can you?

And what happens if on a hot day you slowly drink a glass of lemonade with lots of ice cubes in it? If after a half hour you have not finished it, you probably won't. Why? Because your lemonade is watery. So of I don't want to drink watery lemonade, why would I want to drink ice water that someone made lemony?

Personally, I think servers do that to piss me off. Even if I specifically ask for water WITHOUT lemon, I get lemon in it.

I am pretty sure that right after they have spit in my water, they laugh and say to themselves, "if you insist on not ordering a soft drink that will inflate my tip, you will NOT enjoy your free water."

The thing is, I don't get the water because it is free... I get it because I try not to drink more than one or two sodas a day. I don't really even enjoy drinking water, but I hate it even more when there is lemon in it.

So the next time the server brings you water with a lemon in it, do what I do... throw the lemon at the server.

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