NO! You CAN’T drink THAT! No I am NOT buying it for you!
THere’s a reason why I never drink Pepsi, Coke, or similar, and why I have forbidden it to my children take a look at these two photos taken in Sadr City a few days ago that I have pasted together:
Here are the captions supplied by Reuters:
- A resident cleans soft drink bottles before refilling them in a house in Baghdad’s Sadr City July 30, 2008.
- A resident refills soft drink bottles in a house in Baghdad’s Sadr City July 30, 2008. Picture taken July 30, 2008.
Yes cleaning them in the water contaminated with faecal matter that is all we get in Baghdad. I have forbidden my children to drink this stuff and refuse to buy it as it gives them diarrohea every time they drink it. This refusal has not made me popular with them but they and I like diarrohea even less. I will be very glad when they are old enough to work out cause and effect for themselves :-)
Until that day, and may God hasten it, mother is going to keep on saying very loudly whenever the subject comes up:
NO! You CAN’T drink THAT! No I am NOT buying it for you!
Suheila
Indexed under: Baghdad, Children, Photos, Reuters, Sadr City, Scenes From An Iraki Childhood, Water, Water Contamination