Yeah, me too, Helenz, and for much longer than that. I can't help but wonder if all this hype about glass being dangerous vs plastic being safe is "speaking from personal experience" or based on some urban legend from long ago that's just been passed down from generation to generation.
PS: My apologies to all who are offended by this difference of opinion. No worries. I'm sure this post will be deleted tout suite.
I don't think that it will be, but your reasoning is still very flawed.
I have once needed my seatbelt in my car. Once, in 16 years of driving. Many people have never needed it. Does that mean that they shouldn't wear it? Other people have been hurt or killed because of not wearing one, but that's not personal experience, right?
I have seen the state of a glass bottle which stored a weak lye solution for food use for a few months - there was a cloud of dissolved glass at the bottom of the bottle and the glass was visibly different from the glass above the solution.
Lye does etch most glass over time.
I hope that you never have an issue, I really do. But that does not make it responsible for you to suggest that there might never be an issue for other people based on your personal experience. That is just irresponsible and exceedingly foolish of you. It is not your opinion which offends me, it's the fact that others could well suffer serious issues because of how you present your opinion. Which is all it is - whether or not most types of glass are damaged over time by exposure to soaping level lye solutions is not a matter of opinion, is it? It's a provable point of fact.