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Drinking from the garden hose

For whatever reason drinking from the garden hose has become synonymous with generation X. Not really sure why it seems to be such a big deal to the younger people out there. Yes I did it, I still do it, my wife and kids do it.............although to be honest we're all more likely to drink out of the river because it's colder. Do younger generations think the hose water is somehow different than the water from the kitchen sink? 🙄
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Zaphod42 · 51-55, M
When we were kids they used to do better at cleaning the city’s drinking water. These days contaminants are so common that tap water isn’t considered safe in a lot of places, and even here in one of the wealthiest places in America we get boil orders so often I’ve just stopped drinking tap water…I even fill my dogs drinking fountain with bottled water for his protection.

That’s why the hose option is so novel for Gen X childhoods…we were the last generation to have clean safe drinking water come from any tap on the property.
MethDozer · M
@Zaphod42 nonsense. Lead pipes were more common then than now.
It wasnt that the qaywr was safer anywhere, quite the opposite. It is that the contamination was ignored and turned a blind eye to back in the day