Can you advise me, regarding the maintenance of my water cooler?

you should be able to treat it just like a coffee maker, in that you could run vinegar thru it periodically.

How much vinegar, and what kind of vinegar? The white one? How often should I do that?

August 31, 2008, 2:43 AM EDT

won’t that be a nice surprise when you go to drink a refreshing glass of cold water someday? BLECH.

yeah, the white one. Every six months oughta do it.

@poofandmook: I’/ve done that procedure with my coffeemaker, as the owner’s manual instructs, and if the coffee maker is flushed out with a couple of fillings of water, there is no foul aftertaste from the white vinegar.

August 31, 2008, 7:42 AM EDT

I know that it’s a widely used remedy, but you don’t know me very well, or you would know that I could flush it out 20394203982934 times and I would still miss vinegar, and it would of course wash into only my glass… and of course that would be at 3:30 in the morning in a haze of sleep.

Let me guess: You are that same person who walks into the bathroom AFTER the person before you has used up the last of the toilet paper, right?

I thought I was the only one who had that franchise.

August 31, 2008, 10:40 AM EDT

Nope that’s me, all the way.

We’re in the same club… [heavy sigh]

August 31, 2008, 10:53 AM EDT