The electric water cooker has brought soggy paper cones cones to gyms and offices, but not to every water dispenser. Metal cups, often secured to a chain, are still the norm for quenching visitor's thirs at state offices, museums and temples. The more sanitary public drinking foutain has hardly caught on, depite new ones in Bangkok, as people see them being used as standpippes for washing hands and
much else. But simce Thais prefer their drinks shared, they happily sip from the same metal cup or plastic bag.