In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to if soda water is free at self-service fountain ...

Well ours doesn’t, and even though [Chris Courses’] fridge did, his bottle of choice didn’t fit in the vertically-challenged water and ice hutch, nor did it fill autonomously. The solution ...

When it comes to water cups, the Stanley tumbler reigns supreme ... "I only have it to fill my tumbler once in the morning ...