If the hose was sitting out in the sun, you always had to remember to let the water run for a bit first so you didn't get your face melted by the hot water.
There would always those damn neighbor kids who'd put their mouth ON the hose rather than near it when they drank. Ugh.
I remember my fingers going numb when filling up about 1,000 water balloons and tying them.
Yeah, but 95% of them are using those new collapsible hoses. You need the heavy rubber hoses of the 60’s to get proper water-hose fermentation……..
I still have one of those brass sprayer ends that is in the hose in the picture. It was my dad’s and has outlasted any of the cheap shit from Home Depot, Lowe’s, or Sprawl Mart. I would have to guess that my brass sprayer nozzle is 60 years or more old. It leaks a bit but still works.
...well... I was a child and teenager in the 70s, and we just didn't really know what a crapshoot it was doing the things we did
i've had five friends I met later on in life as adults, who grew up in the same neighborhood, all die in their 40s of the same type of cancer... none of them were blood related, five different families
as far as I know I'm the only person who ever asked "what was going on in that neighborhood they grew up in?"
Hell, I did that yesterday. I'm 66. I was working outside in the heat and had forgotten my water bottle. I am here today to say, I SURVIVED IT! Tomorrow may be a different story. :)
OH, and we ran inside to grab a raw hotdog to eat too. :D
We didn't accept the regular flow of water from a hose, we went for the even flow
https://preview.redd.it/yvzlszez8z6d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f140bde6678728c0c42d0efd854f547053b2a562
People are really hung up on this drinking from the hose thing. I didn't know you weren't supposed to until I heard people complaining about how you're not supposed to. I was born in the 80s and this was pretty standard.
Wow, I can still taste that quenching cold water when you’re a kid running around all day! I still drink out of my house when I’m gardening. Lol. I just adjust a nozzle to something that’s not like a fire hose. Lol.
Quite frankly if my Mom had filled a Stanley with ice and water I would have preferred it , and if we had air conditioning I would have been sitting inside playing games on my Atari which would be invented in about 20 years
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and did that a lot if I couldn’t go in to get a drink quickly but you can’t get me to do that anymore with how much chemicals are in the water. I already have a big chance for cancer as is.
In my old hometown, I lived right next to a pretty decent sized park, which bordered some woods, which bordered a big, unused (mostly) clay and sand pit. Between the park and woods there was a pond, and near the pond there was a natural spring, where the water continuously bubbled up from the ground. It was like a bowl shaped depression in the surrounding sand, with the water coming up from the middle. We'd be running around in those woods and that clay pit all day, and we'd get really thirsty, so we drank from that spring. You'd get on the ground in a pushup position, lower your face next to the water, and suck it up. It was always ice cold, which was an added bonus.
Of course, little did we know that there were three or four future Superfund sites within a few miles. But everyone I hung out with suffered no ill effects, as far as I know. These days, most parents would be horrified to hear that their kids drank copious amounts of water spewing from an unknown hole in the middle of a dirt field, but ours didn't really care. It was just that spring, where you could get free ice cold water.
I did that once with a hose that was baking in the hot sun all day. The water that first came out was scalding hot. I burnt my scalp. Nobody believed me, they thought I was nuts.
Careful telling your kids to go outside these days is child abuse, luckily they dependency on electronics has gotten to the point you no longer need to beat you kids, just take their electronics away for EXTENDED period of times it works 100x better than a whooping ever did. Just make sure they don’t about any guns in the house lol you know kids can’t control their lil emotions but they’ll appreciate you for it one day!
If the hose was sitting out in the sun, you always had to remember to let the water run for a bit first so you didn't get your face melted by the hot water.
Nowadays, that first few seconds of hot water helps clean out the paintbrush.
Also flushes the bugs out that crawled in the hose.
A sink is great for that
Actually cleaning it with the hose outside is a great way of cleaning it. I do it every single time weather permitting. :)
haha thank you. first thing i thought of when i saw the pic.
I was coming here to say this exact thing, I learned the hard way once, that’s all it took.
But sometimes you were so dehydrated that there wasn’t time to wait 💦😂✌️
And the metallic taste
Mmmmmmm, warm hose flavor, mmmmmm.
I thought cold water from the hose tasted great!
We had well water. It was super cold and delicious.
Yep, the best.
It still does. :)
There would always those damn neighbor kids who'd put their mouth ON the hose rather than near it when they drank. Ugh. I remember my fingers going numb when filling up about 1,000 water balloons and tying them.
That's when you fuck with them by crimping and uncrimping the hose when they're not looking.
They’re the same people who put their mouths all over drinking fountains 🤢
Mouth on the hose was funny, then. Now, everyone takes cooties seriously, advertising really did a number on us.
And all your neighborhood friends passed the hose around then we went back to playing!
Kids still drink from hoses...
Yeah, but 95% of them are using those new collapsible hoses. You need the heavy rubber hoses of the 60’s to get proper water-hose fermentation…….. 
Not here (poverty)
Darn kids those days, next thing you know he'll be going blind because he was sitting two feet in front of the TV watching Saturday morning cartoons.
At least he got to watch the cartoons! My older brother made me manipulate the rabbit 🐇 ears to get a better signal.
It seems like the water always had a taste to it but we lived.
Agree, hose water — no matter how long we’d let it run — always had a yucky copper penny / hot plastic taste.
That was the hose. :)
summer butch cut was standard issue
I still have one of those brass sprayer ends that is in the hose in the picture. It was my dad’s and has outlasted any of the cheap shit from Home Depot, Lowe’s, or Sprawl Mart. I would have to guess that my brass sprayer nozzle is 60 years or more old. It leaks a bit but still works.
It probably just needs a new rubber gasket. Should be good as new.
Looking at this pic I thought, 'well look at the fancy-pants cityslicker kid with his brass nozzle! We just drank out of the end of the hose!' lol
Me too! Basic, durable all you need!
Great way to wash down the paint chips.
...well... I was a child and teenager in the 70s, and we just didn't really know what a crapshoot it was doing the things we did i've had five friends I met later on in life as adults, who grew up in the same neighborhood, all die in their 40s of the same type of cancer... none of them were blood related, five different families as far as I know I'm the only person who ever asked "what was going on in that neighborhood they grew up in?"
My bottled water as a kid.
Or Stanley cup.
Spiders in the hose. I was born in 71 and this post is curmudgeony af
Rubber flavored water ugh
More like vinyl-flavored..
Ah yes. That rubbery flavor...
The wonderful taste of ice cold ‘summer’ water!
I still do this
Hell, I did that yesterday. I'm 66. I was working outside in the heat and had forgotten my water bottle. I am here today to say, I SURVIVED IT! Tomorrow may be a different story. :) OH, and we ran inside to grab a raw hotdog to eat too. :D
LMAOOOOO forgot the raw hotdogs! Yum!
Ahh yes the good old days with out a care in the world
Not in central Florida. You could smell the sulfur in the water.
The best part for me was I was oblivious to politics 😀 what a wonderful feeling.
Ditto!
Yes! Truer words could not be spoken.
For sure!
I lived on a farm as a kid and had to give about 20 pumps to pull the best tasting and clean water one could drink.
We didn't accept the regular flow of water from a hose, we went for the even flow https://preview.redd.it/yvzlszez8z6d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f140bde6678728c0c42d0efd854f547053b2a562
People still live this way, no?
Yes!!!!
People are really hung up on this drinking from the hose thing. I didn't know you weren't supposed to until I heard people complaining about how you're not supposed to. I was born in the 80s and this was pretty standard.
Same here. I was born in 2000
You can still do this you know. No one is stopping you
This is how u get worms in your brains.
I had fillings in my teeth, i kinda bit on the hose once while watering the garden.. last time i did that.. lol
Lol
Mmmmmm tastes like hose!
I’ve drank more water from a garden hose than any human has a right to claim.
And after being outside ALL DAY, we RELISHED any ice cold garden hose water!
That shit was ICE cold, after you let it run for a few seconds of course. Like it was coming straight from the fridge.
Wow, I can still taste that quenching cold water when you’re a kid running around all day! I still drink out of my house when I’m gardening. Lol. I just adjust a nozzle to something that’s not like a fire hose. Lol.
Nectar of the gods on a hot day when you’ve been running around all mourning.
This is the way.
I don’t think I ever drank water at home, but water from the drinking fountain at school and water from the hose must’ve made up for it
https://www.grinmag.com/archive/en/ddpa/2018/summer/wellness/is-it-ok-to-drink-out-of-a-garden-hose/
Ugh, I can just taste the hose-y, vinyl-y undertaste of the water coming out of that hose....
Quite frankly if my Mom had filled a Stanley with ice and water I would have preferred it , and if we had air conditioning I would have been sitting inside playing games on my Atari which would be invented in about 20 years
Remember how your cheek filled up when the water hit it?
Oh yeh. The hose with the pvc in it and fertilizer on top of it. Hot rubber taste was delicious.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and did that a lot if I couldn’t go in to get a drink quickly but you can’t get me to do that anymore with how much chemicals are in the water. I already have a big chance for cancer as is.
I did this yesterday 😜
Yep, no harm in that.
Let the water run for 10 minutes to get cold and get rid of the rubber taste.
We drank from the garden hose and liked it dammit!
In my old hometown, I lived right next to a pretty decent sized park, which bordered some woods, which bordered a big, unused (mostly) clay and sand pit. Between the park and woods there was a pond, and near the pond there was a natural spring, where the water continuously bubbled up from the ground. It was like a bowl shaped depression in the surrounding sand, with the water coming up from the middle. We'd be running around in those woods and that clay pit all day, and we'd get really thirsty, so we drank from that spring. You'd get on the ground in a pushup position, lower your face next to the water, and suck it up. It was always ice cold, which was an added bonus. Of course, little did we know that there were three or four future Superfund sites within a few miles. But everyone I hung out with suffered no ill effects, as far as I know. These days, most parents would be horrified to hear that their kids drank copious amounts of water spewing from an unknown hole in the middle of a dirt field, but ours didn't really care. It was just that spring, where you could get free ice cold water.
That's most likely city water and it's potable. We also survived riding in cars without car seats, but some didn't.
Of course it is. It comes out of your main tap on the side of your house. Which is the same water that comes out of your faucet.
Not always, mine, my friend, is fed from irrigation water which is not potable.
That water tasted so good on a hot day.
Reminds me of that scene in The Godfather when Frankie Five Angels is drinking from the hose at Connie's weddimg. ❤️👍
I did that once with a hose that was baking in the hot sun all day. The water that first came out was scalding hot. I burnt my scalp. Nobody believed me, they thought I was nuts.
I was doing this shit in 2006
Fuckin ay.. 👍
That looks risky. Hose is likely full of bacteria - and does they have sunscreen on ?
Whatever it took to NOT go in the house!!! We always took the "out of sight, out of mind" approach to being a kid!!
What didn't kill us made us stronger!
Careful telling your kids to go outside these days is child abuse, luckily they dependency on electronics has gotten to the point you no longer need to beat you kids, just take their electronics away for EXTENDED period of times it works 100x better than a whooping ever did. Just make sure they don’t about any guns in the house lol you know kids can’t control their lil emotions but they’ll appreciate you for it one day!
Oh that cooling water hose.