Every country stressing about homeless people, meanwhile Poland with double side benches:

[u/xCheezyCZ]

[u/tchofee]

I once laid down on a bench in Poland (Toruń, back ache, waiting for the Ibuprofen to kick in) – and in less than 10 minutes, I had a police car next to me asking what I was doing there...

[u/qrak01 → u/tchofee]

Probably checking whether you're drunk, dead or just homeless. Either way, I'd say it's not surprising behaviour from our Police.

[u/tchofee → u/qrak01]

Totally agree. However, once they heard about the back ache, they suddenly became very friendly. Like: surprisingly friendly.

[u/winecherry → u/tchofee]

back pain unites us all

[u/Eagl3ye91 → u/winecherry]

It's the worst

[u/Ketadine → u/Eagl3ye91]

You have yet to have a kidney stone yes ? That is good.

[u/MiniCoupOrRevolution → u/Ketadine]

Literally recovering from one right now...went to ER last Friday at 1 in the morning when the pain woke me up. Second time I've had them. Worst pain I have ever had and that's coming from someone that's had broken bones in my arm as a teen and partially cut a finger off at work. Kidney stones are the worst!

[u/ontarianlibrarian → u/MiniCoupOrRevolution]

My husband gets them regularly. He has been told to cut out the salty meat and drink more water, yet his diet contains a lot of smokies and root beer. Approximately every two years he is in the ER with the pain from the stones.

[u/MiniCoupOrRevolution → u/ontarianlibrarian]

They told me basically the same. Chill out on salty foods and dark sodas and drinks with fructose in general. I do drink water..I know some people hate it....but I don't drink enough of it. Coca Cola is my favorite soda and then Mt Dew and both of those are no Bueno in large amounts, so im doing my best to have them only every so often now. Its hard to with dew coming out with so many new flavors so often. 🫤 And I found out by doing some of my own research, that drinking cranberry juice isn't the Kidney Stone Killa....lol...that it has been made out to be. Sucks your hubs has them so often. I don't wanna get them again. Jesus...literally feels like im dying. 😅

[u/Bidj → u/MiniCoupOrRevolution]

Could you explain what's the problem with dark sodas specifically? Are diet sodas a problem?

Because I am a heavy Coke Zero drinker and have had several kidney stones in the past and I am pretty sure remembering my doctor telling me that diet soda wasn't the problem.

[u/MiniCoupOrRevolution → u/Bidj]

Dark sodas contain phosphoric acid that been associated with urinary changes that promote kidney stones and diet sodas are only a bit worse, if any compared to non diet dark sodas.