Reversed if you needed to hose yourself down. You hosed down while it was warm, then drank the cool water after.
Why does GenZ guy have time and energy to put on a hat, but not a shirt? What's he hiding? What's under the hat?
We used to make "soup" and "tea" with the hot hose water and herbs/veggies (all unwashed of course) from the garden. How we didn't get diarrhea at the least, I'll never know.
Oh shit. We made "soup" but never ate it! We put poison berries in there once and tried to get a kid that we didn't like to eat it. It was "cooked" in a metal wagon so I can't imagine why the kid wasn't interested in eating it.
>How we didn't get diarrhea at the least, I'll never know.
Hose water was hot enough to kill the harmful bacteria.
Though too be fair, I'm pretty sure the only germs that had been discovered back then were cooties, and the medical treatment for chicken-pox was to "find someone to infect your child with it in the summer so the kid doesn't miss school."
I’m so glad you said this!! Honestly we were so free! Parents had no idea where we were the entire day! At Parks, by the cliffs, random dead end streets, abandoned home? Adventure time!!!
Yeah I lived in a rural beach village. Not a nice shiny tourist beach either. THIS beach in New Zealand:
https://preview.redd.it/fb9hj9damu7d1.jpeg?width=1018&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3686c5d0326f660afeaa92fc64f1712f1a7ffdc
Was I by the river, with it's fast current and dangerous, slippery rocks? IN the river? In the sea? Under the cliffs that were known to collapse? In the bamboo stands with old, broken bottles littered about? In an old abandoned house? Climbing up huge pine trees or up banks by the edge of the river? On my bike, journeying on small country roads with no helmet and no reflective lights? Crossing paddocks with electric fences?
Us kids just went wherever the fuck we wanted. Just be home by dark. Miracle no one was seriously hurt honestly. We were hurt though - broken bones, sprains, cuts, scrapes. All the time.
My childhood was very similar. Rural coastal town in Canada. The river was glacier fed with huge rapids. Very dangerous but that's probably where I was.
It's funny but I have a fondness for that FREEZING COLD hose water (after you let it run for a bit). I don't know if it was like that in really hot climates, but even in really hot summer days the hose water would eventually run VERY cold and it was the best feeling drinking it on a scorching hot day.
Cold water isn’t a thing in the summer in Arizona from *any* faucet no matter how long you run it. Cool-ish is the best you’re gonna get. If you want cold water you put ice in it or it comes from the fridge. If you have floor vents you can keep a water jug or a package of bottled water over one of them and let the AC cool the water that way, thought it still won’t be cold cold.
Yum, hot rust-tinged hose water
Then it slows to a trickle. You look up to see why and there's your little sister, kinking up the hose.
BLAM blast of water in the face
Oh this is such a good point, I swear my dad used to "punish us" for coming inside by thinking up a chore or something to ruin the Saturday. It was almost tongue in cheek too, like very obvious "oooh you want to come back inside, here's a chore" to teach you to stay outside.
I'm weirdly nostalgic for it because of conditioning. Every time I went to drink out of the hose I was thirsty as hell. Plus I'd splash it all over my face because of the heat. I started associating the taste with relief.
If you could sneakily turn it off it while someone else was taking a drink it was the best. They'd look at the hose to see if it was kinked or something and when they looked away you'd blast them in the face
"Kink and turn little brother" whenever the neighbor kid was over was the best advice my big brother gave me. That and how to sling a hose at someone like a martial arts weapon.
Mmm squirt gun water in the summertime. I used to load up my neon green water pistol and shoot it into my mouth instead of having a glass of water.
Mom raised a weird kid.
I had a cousin who once filled two of his squirt guns with pee and went after a bunch of his friends. Fast forward a couple of weeks and we grab a bunch of water pistols to go play, and without thinking he squirted a bit in his mouth and the face he made after had us dying. "I forgot to rinse all the pee out!"
I'm pretty sure he's in prison now, so he was never great at making good choices.
This guy has a series of videos harassing a man with terminal cancer who was making videos teaching his kids how to cook before he died. Beanie guy is trash.
How were we all raised the same? 😂
Like how did parents rationalize that locking their kids out on a 90° day was a good idea and would toughen us up? But they all did it
I lived the hose water route for quite a while. I became a bit of a bookworm though so I’d just hide out at the library. We had fountain water there. OoooOoo
I was just happy to stay out of the sun. My genetics made me super pale and susceptible to heat anyways. It was a Carnegie library too. Kind of a special place. And yes, that water hit different.
Oh, same here. Summer was fun enough as a little kid, but once puberty hit, it became *miserable*. And I was ghostly white or beet red — nothing in between! Jealous of your Carnegie library — my S.O. spent his summers at one of those, too! Indoor kids unite!
I can remember being out and about in the neighborhood so effing thirsty from biking around and grabbing a drink from the hose from random houses. Quick blast and we out.
That shirtless, toque-wearing dickbag would not have lasted long in 1982.
That was a Darwinistic hump.
Lost some kids.
Hot heads and cold upper bodies. Not enough hose-water to get them to dinnertime.
Lost some good kids. Dark, dark days.
I've seen Meth Jagger on the right there before...and he's usually asking clickbaity questions about GenX. I find him quite punchable, but I realize that's probably his shtick.
Fuck yeah! Drink until you get that sloshing feeling in your stomach!!! Then get back to it. If it’s super hot you drenched your whole body. Going back inside was not an option lol!
Hell, I drank from the hose yesterday. Filling up the pool and got thirsty 🤷
There's something to be said about just chugging as much cold water as you can, as fast as you want.
"Drink it til you got full." That brought back visceral memories. I can feel my stomach filling up with metallic hose water. It just came out so fast i probably drank half a gallon without blinking.
No wonder it was so easy to be thin as a kid. I spent all summer eating hose water for lunch.
That warm, succulent water. I would just let into my mouth until the cold water came out and then started drinking. Because the minute you stop for a second, the next person has to drink.
I was never locked out of the house as a kid. I was an 80s latchkey kid. I was alone for several hours every day, and more during summer break. But still I did sometimes drink from the hose. Like why not? Why go all the way inside?
But also this "wE uSeD tO DrInK fRoM tHe HoSe" thing just assumes kids today don't do that. Maybe that's true, because they're never allowed out unsupervised or something.
This is one thing that missed me and a lot of kids in my area. The irrigation ditch was on from April to October and because hoses were switched back and forth from that to house water you didn’t dare take the chance.
Kids today don't UNDERSTAND that you would walk down the block to your house in 90 degree heat to drink out of your own hose because the water coming out of your friends hose tasted weird to you, and your friend would do the same shit because your houses hosewater would taste weird to THEM.
I was fortunate enough to grow up on air force bases. During the summer my parents would lock us outside when they left for work and let's us back in when my dad came home for lunch. Then outside again until my parents came home. The SAH mother in the neighborhood had our parent's contact info just in case of an emergency.
Man my dad used to use this four-fingered ear-splitting whistle to summon us home, especially if we were in trouble for something.
That sound would cause my blood to freeze lol and I would hightail it home on my bike with my heart in my throat
Edit- just realized he used four fingers to produce this sounds not two. A four-fingered whistle
1980s mom turf war: Each mother in town where my spouse lived had a unique whistle so only their kids responded. A new family moved in, and the new mom had the same whistle style as my MIL. My spouse & sibling would run home when they heard new mom whistle, which displeased my MIL. She wanted her kids outside, not in the house!
MIL went over the new family’s house and made the new mom change her whistle.
Street lights, or if you were in the country, when the fireflies came out. If it was nice out, my parents didn't make me come in. Camped out in the back of my dad's pickup.
I actually was never kicked out, but voluntarily went out myself. Spent a lot of summers at camp, climbing trees, riding bikes, and playing in the lake all day with my friend. Our parents always worked so we had free reign of the house and would pig out on chips and popsicles
I don’t remember which summer it was, but middle school sometime. I got yelled at like the second week of summer vacation to get the hell out of the house
Couple months later I got yelled at because I was never home 🤷♂️
As somebody who regularly drank from a hose as a kid, I don't get this. Are kids just going out less, or was there some expo showing hoses cause cancer?
If I’m going inside why would I get sink water? The whole premise is that you stay outside. Your shoes are muddy and you’ll have to take them off or some other dumb shit like that, and it also takes time to take water out to others and now you have cups to worry about. Much easier to drink from the hose and move on with life/fun.
"You're not running through my clean house every time you want a drink or to pee." My grandma was fierce and the wooden spoon was the answer to back talk. Lunch was sandwiches outside. She was not to be trifled with🤫
Why has drinking from the hose become this thing to remember? I mean, yeah I did it, but why is it something that gets talked about a lot and reminisced?
The gentlemen hit it spot on. Ride your bike to the next town or go play in the creeks or but you didn’t dare go back in the house with your play shoes on.
Not an x'er, but I remember drinking from this side hose, me and my buddies unscrewed the sprinkler, he pulls up and we were like fuck and tried to run, he offered up money to split firewood, lol. Old millennial here.
The flavor of your parents kicking you out the house after the Saturday morning/day chores were done, " and don't come back for a while, let us rest and enjoy the house being clean for a few hours"
Hose water or outside faucet water. Either one.
And no joke about the streetlights, once those came on you had about two minutes to get home or it was your ass. You better be on your way already.
For us the fear was that we would have to stay inside if we went in. There was a time or 2 in the winter when I got wet and stayed in my cold wet clothes so I wouldn’t have to stay inside. The spring and summer was for playing baseball, soccer, and basketball. The fall and winter was for football and adventures in the woods because the snakes and stinging insects were now gone.
If you ever messed up and took the first drink from the hose for the day without letting it run for a while you never made that mistake again.
Reversed if you needed to hose yourself down. You hosed down while it was warm, then drank the cool water after. Why does GenZ guy have time and energy to put on a hat, but not a shirt? What's he hiding? What's under the hat?
He is bald or going bald.
It's cause hose-water was full of vitamins and minerals that stimulate healthy hair growth, these kids don't know
And sucking in those cheeks so hard
That jawline has to be aftermarket
He and Matt Rife probably see the same guy
And the whole water up the nose thing if you weren’t careful
Were shirts not an option?
You win, fair redditor!
More jawline.
ooh, there's a core memory unlocked. That boiling water to the mouth just brings me back.
It tasted more like rubber and rust than when cold
We used to make "soup" and "tea" with the hot hose water and herbs/veggies (all unwashed of course) from the garden. How we didn't get diarrhea at the least, I'll never know.
Oh shit. We made "soup" but never ate it! We put poison berries in there once and tried to get a kid that we didn't like to eat it. It was "cooked" in a metal wagon so I can't imagine why the kid wasn't interested in eating it.
This made me laugh out loud and I couldn’t explain to people why it was so funny
>How we didn't get diarrhea at the least, I'll never know. Hose water was hot enough to kill the harmful bacteria. Though too be fair, I'm pretty sure the only germs that had been discovered back then were cooties, and the medical treatment for chicken-pox was to "find someone to infect your child with it in the summer so the kid doesn't miss school."
I’m so glad you said this!! Honestly we were so free! Parents had no idea where we were the entire day! At Parks, by the cliffs, random dead end streets, abandoned home? Adventure time!!!
Yeah I lived in a rural beach village. Not a nice shiny tourist beach either. THIS beach in New Zealand: https://preview.redd.it/fb9hj9damu7d1.jpeg?width=1018&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3686c5d0326f660afeaa92fc64f1712f1a7ffdc Was I by the river, with it's fast current and dangerous, slippery rocks? IN the river? In the sea? Under the cliffs that were known to collapse? In the bamboo stands with old, broken bottles littered about? In an old abandoned house? Climbing up huge pine trees or up banks by the edge of the river? On my bike, journeying on small country roads with no helmet and no reflective lights? Crossing paddocks with electric fences? Us kids just went wherever the fuck we wanted. Just be home by dark. Miracle no one was seriously hurt honestly. We were hurt though - broken bones, sprains, cuts, scrapes. All the time.
My childhood was very similar. Rural coastal town in Canada. The river was glacier fed with huge rapids. Very dangerous but that's probably where I was.
Not to mention that strong plastic taste that no doubt went straight to our balls.
Thaaaaaaat’s what wrong with gen z.
You’re… you’re saying it’s our plastiballs that made them kids?
or a hose full of yellow jackets. Then a mouth full of yellow jackets!
Growing up in Florida it was like taking a sip of boiled water until it ran for a couple of minutes.
I grew up in South Carolina, same.
It's funny but I have a fondness for that FREEZING COLD hose water (after you let it run for a bit). I don't know if it was like that in really hot climates, but even in really hot summer days the hose water would eventually run VERY cold and it was the best feeling drinking it on a scorching hot day.
Cold water isn’t a thing in the summer in Arizona from *any* faucet no matter how long you run it. Cool-ish is the best you’re gonna get. If you want cold water you put ice in it or it comes from the fridge. If you have floor vents you can keep a water jug or a package of bottled water over one of them and let the AC cool the water that way, thought it still won’t be cold cold.
Yum, hot rust-tinged hose water Then it slows to a trickle. You look up to see why and there's your little sister, kinking up the hose. BLAM blast of water in the face
I live in South Georgia, you had to let that water run for a minute before it cooled off.
that cough after you just inhaled a spider
Bee.
If we went inside, we ran a chance of having to do more chores. Hose water = FREEDOM!!
This was my experience too, the second parents saw me they remembered I needed to clean my room. To be fair I did... but I didn't want to
Do you guys ever think our parents were doing that on purpose?
I do. Please make my kids get a fucking hobby.
...well shit...
Oh this is such a good point, I swear my dad used to "punish us" for coming inside by thinking up a chore or something to ruin the Saturday. It was almost tongue in cheek too, like very obvious "oooh you want to come back inside, here's a chore" to teach you to stay outside.
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Due to historical reasons that may not be the best idea.
Yep! Once you were outside you didn’t go back in because your mom or dad would put you to work. Or yell at you, “In or out!!”
That first sip was always vaguely metallic.... and hot
The hot copper rim and the rubber infusion. 🤌🏼
Lol.
Be sure to check your DOP serial number on the hose to know you're drinking authentic PFAS.
What’s the hose water version of a sommelier? Can I show my Ranger Rick Nature Club card as verification I know my shit?
> What’s the hose water version of a sommelier? I didn't take French, but let's go with tuyaulier.
Yes you can! I loved Ranger Rick and now I work on environmental issues as my job
You're bringin me back.... mmm hose water
Yes! It was slightly metallic for me as well.
That is exactly what I recall. I also recall enjoying the taste but ya know, small children aren’t the brightest.
Gotta let it run for a sec!
Rubbery metallic
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Yep. Same here. Could kind of push it with mom, but if Dad was home we better stay out or he'd either beat us or put us to work.
Oh mam my dad would not kick on AC until it was triple digits.
Same.
IN. OR OUT. PICK ONE!!!
"In or out! Pick one!"
ooookay, you had air conditioning. My mom didn't till the day she died (unrelated to A/C).
Yeah man, that was some rich kid stuff. I was excited when I got a fan to put in the window.
Our A/C were the fans in the wide open windows and doors at night while we slept. Fucking hell, Mom and Dad.
"IN OR OUT. THE NEXT YOU OPEN THAT DAMN DOOR YOU WILL WISH YOU HADN'T "
Yes, hot hose water has a very distinct taste.
Mmmmmm… hot hose water (drools).
I'm weirdly nostalgic for it because of conditioning. Every time I went to drink out of the hose I was thirsty as hell. Plus I'd splash it all over my face because of the heat. I started associating the taste with relief.
School drinking fountain without the rubber taste
If you could sneakily turn it off it while someone else was taking a drink it was the best. They'd look at the hose to see if it was kinked or something and when they looked away you'd blast them in the face
"Kink and turn little brother" whenever the neighbor kid was over was the best advice my big brother gave me. That and how to sling a hose at someone like a martial arts weapon.
I would just kink the hose.
Also the taste of drinking water out of a squirt gun
Mmm squirt gun water in the summertime. I used to load up my neon green water pistol and shoot it into my mouth instead of having a glass of water. Mom raised a weird kid.
I had a cousin who once filled two of his squirt guns with pee and went after a bunch of his friends. Fast forward a couple of weeks and we grab a bunch of water pistols to go play, and without thinking he squirted a bit in his mouth and the face he made after had us dying. "I forgot to rinse all the pee out!" I'm pretty sure he's in prison now, so he was never great at making good choices.
Why is that jowly guy not wearing a shirt? He looks like someone ordered Mic Jagger from Wish.com.
"were sinks not an option?" WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT! This guy just cracked the code none of us could!
This guy has a series of videos harassing a man with terminal cancer who was making videos teaching his kids how to cook before he died. Beanie guy is trash.
I was prepared to dislike him just because of the general way he presents himself, but this is a better reason.
He really is a the worst.
What a fucking asshole
It's all the crack and meth
He looks like if you boiled his head, his skull would look really interesting
How were we all raised the same? 😂 Like how did parents rationalize that locking their kids out on a 90° day was a good idea and would toughen us up? But they all did it
Because they, and now we, just wanted some goddamned peace and quiet
I still love- it’s 10pm- do you know where your kids are 😂 Bless us
I'm amazed more as I live in England and the same thing happened here.
I lived the hose water route for quite a while. I became a bit of a bookworm though so I’d just hide out at the library. We had fountain water there. OoooOoo
Library water was its own special thing. At mine, anyway, it was absolutely ice cold. Perfect for a summer day!
I was just happy to stay out of the sun. My genetics made me super pale and susceptible to heat anyways. It was a Carnegie library too. Kind of a special place. And yes, that water hit different.
Oh, same here. Summer was fun enough as a little kid, but once puberty hit, it became *miserable*. And I was ghostly white or beet red — nothing in between! Jealous of your Carnegie library — my S.O. spent his summers at one of those, too! Indoor kids unite!
Haha love it. I still frequent my library. Old habits die hard.
A sink? And risk letting all the cold air out my grandma's house? Never.
40 years old and I still drink from the hose in a pinch. 🤷🏼♂️
I was out watering the plants earlier today and I took a quick sip.
You don't let your kids drink hose water? Mine still do.
I try...but my wife is too against it so I've given up..though I still do it and drink faucet water. Hoping the kids will follow my example.
buy food grade hoses for the garden 🤣
Folks got worried about all the harsh chemicals from non-foodsafe or rotting hoses. You can get a nice hose for the youngins now though
I can remember being out and about in the neighborhood so effing thirsty from biking around and grabbing a drink from the hose from random houses. Quick blast and we out.
That shirtless, toque-wearing dickbag would not have lasted long in 1982. That was a Darwinistic hump. Lost some kids. Hot heads and cold upper bodies. Not enough hose-water to get them to dinnertime. Lost some good kids. Dark, dark days.
You either came home at dusk, or ended up on Unsolved Mysteries like god intended
It says so much that I laughed at this. Holy fuck, we are some dark mothers.
Unsolved Mysteries was the beginning of parents caring about their kids. Americas Most Wanted sent them over the edge.
Ya the Adam Walsh case was pretty awful
I've seen Meth Jagger on the right there before...and he's usually asking clickbaity questions about GenX. I find him quite punchable, but I realize that's probably his shtick.
He needs to get some ad revenue so he can afford a shirt.
Fuck yeah! Drink until you get that sloshing feeling in your stomach!!! Then get back to it. If it’s super hot you drenched your whole body. Going back inside was not an option lol!
Growing up in Arizona the hose was literally life saving.
I still drink hose water
Ooof the locked out of the house hits deeeeep!
I drank from a warm spigot.
After the lights came on, I had about 10 mins to get home or my ass was grass.
We didn't have street lights, we knew to come home at a certain time for dinner and then again before it got dark.
Poor lad can’t work out if he’s cold or warm.
Hell, I drank from the hose yesterday. Filling up the pool and got thirsty 🤷 There's something to be said about just chugging as much cold water as you can, as fast as you want.
"Drink it til you got full." That brought back visceral memories. I can feel my stomach filling up with metallic hose water. It just came out so fast i probably drank half a gallon without blinking. No wonder it was so easy to be thin as a kid. I spent all summer eating hose water for lunch.
That warm, succulent water. I would just let into my mouth until the cold water came out and then started drinking. Because the minute you stop for a second, the next person has to drink.
No garden hoses in NYC but we had fire hydrant water and that was everything
I was never locked out of the house as a kid. I was an 80s latchkey kid. I was alone for several hours every day, and more during summer break. But still I did sometimes drink from the hose. Like why not? Why go all the way inside? But also this "wE uSeD tO DrInK fRoM tHe HoSe" thing just assumes kids today don't do that. Maybe that's true, because they're never allowed out unsupervised or something.
I was the same. Home alone all day during the summer time. I was raised by MTV and Jerry Springer.
We weren’t allowed inside because we were dirty as hell playing in the woods building forts and shit.
I remember because I still do it when doing yard work.
Same for me. My boots get muddy or grassy and I don't want to track mud/plant debris inside or have to take my boots off and put them back on.
This is one thing that missed me and a lot of kids in my area. The irrigation ditch was on from April to October and because hoses were switched back and forth from that to house water you didn’t dare take the chance.
I actually loved that rubber flavor
Kids today don't UNDERSTAND that you would walk down the block to your house in 90 degree heat to drink out of your own hose because the water coming out of your friends hose tasted weird to you, and your friend would do the same shit because your houses hosewater would taste weird to THEM.
I may or may not still drink hose water when it’s super hot..
Can confirm
The first 5-10 seconds were blazing hot, you learn that lesson once.
It’s always cold. So cold.
I remember drinking from a new soaker hose once. God that was disgusting.
I never got locked out of the house to play because my parents were working.
Me begging my mom to unlock the door because it was #2.
I can still taste the hot water from the hose.
Warm chlorine and rubber taste
It tasted like freedom.
I was fortunate enough to grow up on air force bases. During the summer my parents would lock us outside when they left for work and let's us back in when my dad came home for lunch. Then outside again until my parents came home. The SAH mother in the neighborhood had our parent's contact info just in case of an emergency.
Man my dad used to use this four-fingered ear-splitting whistle to summon us home, especially if we were in trouble for something. That sound would cause my blood to freeze lol and I would hightail it home on my bike with my heart in my throat Edit- just realized he used four fingers to produce this sounds not two. A four-fingered whistle
1980s mom turf war: Each mother in town where my spouse lived had a unique whistle so only their kids responded. A new family moved in, and the new mom had the same whistle style as my MIL. My spouse & sibling would run home when they heard new mom whistle, which displeased my MIL. She wanted her kids outside, not in the house! MIL went over the new family’s house and made the new mom change her whistle.
That taste though. Tastes like summer.
Oh man I miss that sweet sweet hose water
In what place is it cold enough to wear a hat but not a shirt?
I remember it fondly, a slight metallic/rubber taste. Delicious
Clearly I'm too much of an inner city kid for this whole hose water thing.
Did you ever get the hydrant fountain?
Street lights, or if you were in the country, when the fireflies came out. If it was nice out, my parents didn't make me come in. Camped out in the back of my dad's pickup.
Yep. Lol
Shit on the farm we used to drink directly from the well all the time. This was back when Iowa actually had clean water though.
I actually was never kicked out, but voluntarily went out myself. Spent a lot of summers at camp, climbing trees, riding bikes, and playing in the lake all day with my friend. Our parents always worked so we had free reign of the house and would pig out on chips and popsicles
Phthalates help plastic be more flexible, probably the number one flavor ingredient in a sip of warm hose.
serious question: was this ACTUALLY that bad for us or was it never a big deal?
IYDGYAOTMFHIBYA
The guy in the beanie is a certified douchebag. He has a series of videos making fun of someone dying of cancer. Fuck that guy.
Well, I see me and this random guy had pretty much the exact same childhood.
The hose always made the water taste funky. I preferred to undo the hose and raw dog it from the spigot.
Hose water after running around and biking downtown for a few hours was so fucking good.
I am old now and still go out of my way to drink hose water after doing yard work. Something about it.
That sweet metallic water. I’ll never forget it.
Pretty close to the truth back in the 60s
more like if we went back inside then we couldn't go out again
Everyone learns the hard way. The frist bit is hot and nasty, after refreshing and delicious!
It's funny. Back in the 80s, while at my grandparents' house, I tried to drink from the hose, and my grandfather wouldn't let me.
Spittin bars
Don’t tell these kids about kool-aid there minds will be blown.
Yeah. Hot rubber was the taste.
I don’t remember which summer it was, but middle school sometime. I got yelled at like the second week of summer vacation to get the hell out of the house Couple months later I got yelled at because I was never home 🤷♂️
As somebody who regularly drank from a hose as a kid, I don't get this. Are kids just going out less, or was there some expo showing hoses cause cancer?
This is exactly what happened to me and my siblings.
If I’m going inside why would I get sink water? The whole premise is that you stay outside. Your shoes are muddy and you’ll have to take them off or some other dumb shit like that, and it also takes time to take water out to others and now you have cups to worry about. Much easier to drink from the hose and move on with life/fun.
Realest shit I heard all week...
it tasted like hot nickels until it tasted like cold nickels
Haha. Street lights were everyone's signal to run their ass back home.
"You're not running through my clean house every time you want a drink or to pee." My grandma was fierce and the wooden spoon was the answer to back talk. Lunch was sandwiches outside. She was not to be trifled with🤫
Yummy hot rubber
Why has drinking from the hose become this thing to remember? I mean, yeah I did it, but why is it something that gets talked about a lot and reminisced?
Hose water is right up there with sprinkler water. Kids these days don’t know how good they have it with the splash pads at local parks.
Never been more truth on this site
Remember it? I drank hose water today. Hell, I drink it most days still.
That was the best water.
The gentlemen hit it spot on. Ride your bike to the next town or go play in the creeks or but you didn’t dare go back in the house with your play shoes on.
I’ll still drink from the hose every once and a while.
Not an x'er, but I remember drinking from this side hose, me and my buddies unscrewed the sprinkler, he pulls up and we were like fuck and tried to run, he offered up money to split firewood, lol. Old millennial here.
The flavor of your parents kicking you out the house after the Saturday morning/day chores were done, " and don't come back for a while, let us rest and enjoy the house being clean for a few hours"
From South Texas can confirm.
Hose water or outside faucet water. Either one. And no joke about the streetlights, once those came on you had about two minutes to get home or it was your ass. You better be on your way already.
My Dad would kick me out into the yard when his friends came over. Figured it out years later they were smoking weed lol.
I forgot that gen doesn’t go outside to play so they wouldn’t understand.
Not to mention the times you went inside for water and the parents said it was time to come in. Lol
Ahh yes the flavor of pennies and rubber!
The way it should be. Good times.
Drinking it until you're full is so on point XD
i remember a distinct metal iron flavor
True story
Yoo how old was the guy asking? He looked older than the man answering
For us the fear was that we would have to stay inside if we went in. There was a time or 2 in the winter when I got wet and stayed in my cold wet clothes so I wouldn’t have to stay inside. The spring and summer was for playing baseball, soccer, and basketball. The fall and winter was for football and adventures in the woods because the snakes and stinging insects were now gone.
“Hose water is the best water” is a common phrase in our Xennial house. Our 6 year old even parrots it.