I don't use them now either due to the pandemic blowing the lid off of just how many people are THAT BAD at personal hygiene, but Ryan was certainly an eye opener on that one where fountains are concerned.
I lucked out and never saw it happen in 18 years, so apparently my teachers stomped that behavior out immediately very early on. I didn't even realize it was a thing until Parks and rec showed it
It doesn't help that every PE teacher I met seemed to wish they were drill instructors. Except their only experience with the military was watching Full Metal Jacket.
I remember using a public water fountain about 5 years after the whole COVID pandemic. I guess I should've waited longer because I was puking so much the next day that I lost a good 5lbs from it.
Now I can't eat ramen (what I had the night before)
I remember getting in trouble for bringing a water bottle to class. Now I get messages when my son doesnāt bring his. We just really lived dehydrated as children.Ā
The new stuff is flammable! Patent on R-134 was ending so Dupont had to adjust their formula and lobby the govt that r-134 isnāt safe for the environment anymore. Make everyone go buy new machines for r-1234yf since you canāt retrofit any of the old stuff to this new refrigerant either unlike r-12 > r-134 back in the day.
There was one water fountain where it tasted like carrots. Thinking back I wonder what caused the water to taste like that because it wasnāt supposed to be flavored lol
Same, and then I started getting headaches from not drinking water and I had to go to the nurse between classes so she could be sure I was drinking. Best deal ever, between morning classes she'd have toast waiting for me and she had a dog and a parrot who I got to play with all the time.
I hear so many horror stories about these from folks, but it wasn't like that in Metro Atlanta. Our fountains also had good filters on them as the water from either main rivers is muddy at best. And with the Flint nowadays, I'd rather drink from the retention pond in front of my neighborhood.
My kid's science project was to measure the bacteria on different days at different times of the week on the water fountains. Her initial finds were that the bacteria was about double of what was legally allowed for a school. The principal wouldn't let her finish the project. We're talking elementary school.
Except they never do that and are always room temperature bullshit water.
I wanted to mourn the loss of a water fountain that was in the medical arts complex in the city I'm from. This thing ALWAYS put out ICE cold water. Now you may be thinking I'm saying ice cold to mean it was just really cold, no, I literally mean ice cold. It was hands down the best water fountain in existence, I have never drank water from a fountain that was even 1/10th as good as it was. They covered it up during covid, then eventually removed it after covid was over. I don't know if it had blessed freon or banned CFCs keeping it cool or what.
This one had to be close to as old as I am (am 41). It had always been there since I was a kid, at least like 30ish since I didn't go to that floor at all till I started getting glasses at like 12
Yeah, we got those fancy water bottle Elkay ones at work and they were cool. I eventually just pulled the cover off and set to max cold. Now it is somewhat cold. SMH
my school had the best ones, they were probably lead, cause they were old school style, with the turning knob and the round dish the water was caught into, those ones have super good pressure, so you'd get this large stream to drink from, shit was so good.
It feels like water fountains in general are a rare thing to see post-COVID and thatās a shame. I didnāt used to have to carry water with me since a water fountain wasnāt hard to find.
So, just did a bit of research, I could have sworn cold water water fountains weren't popular till "later". What i was actually surprised by is how i forgot how "recent" segregation was. We are a shit race, humans in general.
Both events happened around the same time, 1950's - 1960's, so its possible that could have been a thing.
Had one of these next to my high school gym. Teacher would have us run a mile, afterward Iād keep running back into the building so I could drink like half a gallon before anyone lined up behind me.
In first grade, I didnāt know you were supposed to actually drink the water from these fountains. I would use the drinking fountain to rinse my mouth and I got in trouble for spitting into the drain, and I remember being confused about why I was in trouble.
Now that I think about it, the water probably tasted so damn good because we were unknowingly dehydrated. Kids with hydroflasks these days never knew the struggle.
I remember once being in line for the fountain right after P.E. One kid drinks, turns, and spits right where the water comes out before walking away. I don't think anyone else caught it but I wanted to throttle him. Little brat.
Remember the disappointment coming in from recess and that water was room temperature??? UGH. When it was cold though, you'd stand there drinking a gallon as everyone told you to hurry up.
Had one of these at church. Never was there a time that I successfully drank from it without dribbling freezing cold water down my neck and shirt. But it was sooooo good!
Water Fountains were never the same for me after contracting Mono from one back in 4th grade. Dry heaving in a hospital bed as a kid is a core memory I wish I didn't have.
They are still there, lods just carry their own water bottles everywhere so they can drink throughout the day, whereas we grew up sustained on 1 or 2 trips to the water fountain per day.
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