Hoses | TheaterFire

I saw a headline the other day about a baby with second degree burns because they were sprayed with hot hose water. I saw the photo too, poor kid. But

Why are you spraying a baby with a hose, even on a hot day
Obviously you gotta let the hose run until it's cold. You should have that figured out by age 5

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dunnkw@reddit

Same guy who ate broccoli without dip and then got arrested for multiple unsolved murders a few years ago.

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MistaRekt@reddit

I read that sentence and it just raises questions... Too many questions...

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dunnkw@reddit

Best not to ask questions about psychopaths.

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MowingInJordans@reddit

Mmm, hot, hose flavored water. Those were the days.

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salsanacho@reddit

Being second in line was always the sweet spot.

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whiskeytown79@reddit

Younger siblings at the start of a water fight

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JackpineSavage74@reddit

It tasted awful, you will only do that once...

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not-telling-@reddit

I did that on a long run when I was about 35yo, in front of coworkers.

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4luminate@reddit

just like you only drink from a soaker hose once.

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Djigooblie@reddit

Maybe not drinking but you DID have to open the tap in someone's face

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weedtrek@reddit

Well you learn that lesson at least once.

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Soundwave234@reddit

"that hot hose hitter" as theo von once mused lol

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IvanNemoy@reddit

This. Who the hell drinks the warm nasty that comes out of the hose at first?

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mikeeperez@reddit

Exactly what I came here to say! My parents warned us to only drink from the hose after the water cools off.

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SteakJones@reddit

Right? I thought this was common knowledge.

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HIs4HotSauce@reddit

common knowledge is increasingly becoming more uncommon

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Ironcastattic@reddit

And precious nutrients from any spiders that may be washed away!

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goosedog79@reddit

Don’t forget to rub your hand over the spout and your good to go!

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fetal_genocide@reddit

Wait, did you suck on the end of the hose???

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ofTHEbattle@reddit

Right wtf? Use it just like a drinking fountain, give it an arch and have at it!

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There was always that one kid in the group who put the hose in his mouth like a dummy, and also put his mouth directly on the spout at drinking fountains. I remember always being sufficiently grossed out by drinking fountains as a kid because of that 😆

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ofTHEbattle@reddit

You ain't lying about the fountain! 🤣 I never saw it with the hose but we kept our group pretty small.

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mattchewy43@reddit

I used my shirt or shorts if I wasn't wearing a tshirt

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sed2017@reddit

Bingo.

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OperatorP365@reddit

This... all day this...

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jbott456@reddit

40+ years later, feeling just fine

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beebs44@reddit

I remember filling up a metal trash can with water and getting in it to beat the heat.

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frankiefatgoose@reddit

Yet we did it all the time when I was a wee lad

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Various_Focus5452@reddit

Us Gen Xers drank from garden hoses all the time, never got sick from any of them.

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scotty813@reddit

And that's when we started to go soft. ;-)

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CADman0909@reddit

A friend of mine was contaminated by the bacteria from a hose. He ended up in the hospital and almost died. His body started rejecting the meds. It’s nothing to mess around with.

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cbus6@reddit

That would have been good information on hot summer days in the 70s

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Skitzafranik@reddit

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I guess we all missed that memo!! 😄

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ShieldMaidenWildling@reddit

That's why you let it run for a bit.

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buzznumbnuts@reddit

Bitches and hoses

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Gojira_Dude@reddit

I haven’t drank from a hose since I was a kid. I can still remember the taste so vividly though. Not really a good taste, just very distinct.

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Aselleus@reddit

Drink Aquafina/Dasani and you'll get to relive your childhood memories.

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jgengr@reddit

My mom loves that stuff. I hate it.

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stockvillain@reddit

The pallets of water bottles baking in the Iraqi sun back in 2004 had that same taste. Was a weird time to have that nostalgia hit, for sure.

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JohnnyDerpington@reddit

Nothing like drinking 100 degree water to quench your thirst from being in 120 degree weather.

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Wilson2424@reddit

Mosul pallet water was great. You could taste the cancer in every boiling sip.

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stockvillain@reddit

Al-Taqaddum, right up by the lake they said we couldn't swim in due to "flesh-eating bacteria."

Which the Army guys were always swimming in when we drove up . . .

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frodo28f@reddit

Dasani tastes like dish water. Like I swear I tasted soap a few times

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pragmaticweirdo@reddit

On behalf of the Coca-Cola Corporation, I hereby order you to cease and desist in the dissemination of trade secrets that are the intellectual property of the Coca-Cola Corporation. Failure to comply with this request will result in further legal action.

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Salt_Sir2599@reddit

Why it became a point of pride is beyond me

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yowza_wowza@reddit

Metallic!

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Alexandratta@reddit

That would be the micro-plastics disbursing into your tongue =P

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Dr-McLuvin@reddit

I actually kinda liked the taste of hose water.

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andiinAms@reddit

Metallic-y

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Smgth@reddit

It 100% tastes like hose.

I wouldn't bottle it and sell it, I don't feel the need to re-experience it, but the memory is vivid.

I'm nostalgic enough to enjoy the memory, but not so nostalgic I'm gonna go drink from a hose...

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Gojira_Dude@reddit

This is my thoughts on it exactly. It's just a very distinct memory of a good time in my life. There are better childhood experiences that I would rather re-visit. (I still watch old Saturday Cartoon blocks on Youtube most early Saturday mornings along with my Froot Loops cereal.)

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Smgth@reddit

I never moved beyond my love of cartoons. I still love them.

I used to wake my parents up at the crack of dawn Saturday morning and say, "I want something to eat, something to drink, and something to watch on TV."

EVENTUALLY my parents managed to inculcate manners into me, thankfully.

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Gojira_Dude@reddit

Those morning are DEFINITELY some of my most cherished memories. I remember getting up with my little brother before programming even started. Had to watch the farm report! (This was late 80s/ early 90s in the US.)

I lost my brother a few years ago. I kind of keep up the tradition now as a sort of remembrance of him as well.

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Smgth@reddit

Oh shit, I'm sorry to hear that. My condolences.

I have a younger sister, by 4 years. We spent the first couple decades at each other's throats. Could barely be in the same room. Although I did basically teach her to walk and speak. Unfortunately I feel it was all downhill after the luster of being a big brother wore off and then I just had this tiny annoyance who wanted things I wanted.

We get along now. I like her a lot. I do wish she hadn't moved so far away after high school. Or that she was a little more interested in chatting. But she is who she is, and I respect that.

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Okeydokey2u@reddit

I always thought it tasted like rust

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Smgth@reddit

Hrm. I'm not sure I really know what that tastes like. Metallic, for sure. But hose water has another certain...je ne sais pas

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Optimal-Draft8879@reddit

this is the real reason not to drink from the hose, it taste like shit

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jawnbaejaeger@reddit

I can still taste that vaguely metallic water

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SquatchoCamacho@reddit

I imagine the hose I drank from was rubber, and I bet the hose attached to my house currently is some poison mix of vinyl, PVC, super BPA and silicone lol

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Woozle_Gruffington@reddit

lol, you have to let the water run for a while. It loses that taste after a minute or so.

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Taco_El_Paco@reddit

Where I grew up, we didn't even have hoses

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SoggyJay@reddit

Lies. They just tryna take all the hose water for themselves. That shit is delicious.

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Fantastic-King-5709@reddit

can be chopped middle in the night for a bong run

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Limp-Reputation-5746@reddit

Someone is scared of basic life I see.

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milkymilkmilk@reddit

I think the real threat is the “other harmful substances” in the plastic of vinyl of the hose itself, baking in the sun.

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SaccharineHuxley@reddit

Jokes on everyone, we’ve been getting microplastics from EVERYWHERE for ages anyway!

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an_ill_way@reddit

Right? The plastic in the hose is bad, but not the plastic in water bottles, cups, packaging...

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MichaelJAwesome@reddit

Yes, actually. Food safe plastic has to be used in those things, but not in garden hoses.

You can buy drinking water safe hoses though.

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SaccharineHuxley@reddit

And how it’s unavoidable to use plastic in things - especially the wrapping/packaging and single use plastics. There’s a core group of us at my work who only use glassware and metal cutlery for our bagged lunches, but we are the exception to the rule.

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Ineedavodka2019@reddit

Plus, a lot of home water treatment systems don’t go to the outside spigots so your water has god knows what in it. Honestly, I should never have drank from our hose to begin with. The iron and other stuff was super high.

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trickman01@reddit

Brain eating amoebas on occasion.

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stareweigh2@reddit

accidental ingestion of a snail could be deadly

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SteakJones@reddit

Escargot

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wBeeze@reddit

This is joke. I know. But for the people who don't know, do not eat random snail you find. It isn't the same as escargot. That industry is highly regulated. Random snail is full of parasites. Gross.

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SteakJones@reddit

Yeah they’re pretty nasty little creatures.

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z12345z6789@reddit

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Smgth@reddit

EscarGONE

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freshleysqueezd@reddit

Escargotsickanddied

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neanderthalman@reddit

This guy torts

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SpaceAdventures3D@reddit

There are food grade, drinking-water safe hoses. They don't have the lead and the phthalates that other garden hoses have.

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External-Praline-451@reddit

I've been scared of hoses since my parent's neighbour died from catching legionnaires disease from the spray of his hose (not even drinking it, just watering plants)!! 💀

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bryanna_leigh@reddit

Everyone getting cancer at earlier ages… Hmmmm.

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ApplePie_1999@reddit

That sounds like communist propaganda but ok

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ms_sid_d@reddit

Suckaz . . .

No wonder we look younger than gen z (that & preservatives) 😉

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Upstairs-Bad-3576@reddit

I drank creek water. Do you really think hose water can scare me?

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Switchbladekitten@reddit

I drank plenty of hose water and I’m fine.

For now.

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demostv@reddit

It’s better if you drink straight from the faucet.

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BeginningRing9186@reddit

Lies. All lies. Just run it until it's cold. Same water that comes out of your faucet inside.

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summerlea1@reddit

There were times after football practice that the hose at the field house was the closest thing to getting water and yeah it tasted pretty chemically at first in the late summer heat 😂

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JediMasterPopCulture@reddit

I did every day during the summer in the 70's and 80's and I'm still here.

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BillHang4@reddit

They left out Flavor

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anananon3@reddit

I drank from a hose this morning

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nocerealever@reddit

Too late

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Glittering_Tea5502@reddit

Ugh. There’s probably lead in that water too.

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Pure-Anything-585@reddit

that's all I thought of ........

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BadassSasquatch@reddit

All of that just makes you stronger. Our Flintstone vitamins took care of most diseases.

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BetaThetaZeta@reddit

Circle circle dot dot for everything else.

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Smgth@reddit

Only if you ate a whole handful every time you were supposed to take one!

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BooRadley_ThereHeIs@reddit

Yabba dabba don't

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Smgth@reddit

It's too late. I can see through time now.

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CReeseRozz@reddit

This explains a lot

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YaThinkYerSlickDoYa@reddit

The “Guts Of Steel” Generation

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FluxusFlotsam@reddit

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First_Joke_5617@reddit

The only reason not to drink from a hose is when the water tastes like rubber.

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Zilch1979@reddit

Also, sometimes frogs hang out in them and might jump in your mouth.

...so I've heard.

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No-Purchase-5930@reddit

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Drank from them many a summer. That which doesn't kill you...

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Aggravating_Ad_7620@reddit

Nowadays Americas don't get thirsty or hungry enough to do things like this anymore.

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Crunk_Jews@reddit

What is that even supposed to mean?!

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Chimpbot@reddit

It means nothing, but it's supposed to feel like it means something.

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Howboutit85@reddit

Yes they do. Kids drink from the hose all the time.

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Middle_Bison47@reddit

You kinda have a point.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

Didn't die

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33TLWD@reddit

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knivesofsmoothness@reddit

Why are we bragging about drinking out of hoses? I don't get it.

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Chimpbot@reddit

It's just Xennials leaning into ridiculous Boomer energy. "i DrAnK oUt Of A hOsE" is a sentiment that harkens back to a simpler time, when kids were kids, men were men, women were women, the extent of emergency medical treatment was a Band-Aid that was dropped on the floor before applying it, and everything that is "bad" didn't exist.

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UnadvancedDegree@reddit

Drinking from the hose as a kid meant you didn't have to go inside and get told about coming in and out because the AC was on and you also avoided the potential of your mom or dad needing you for something or telling you it was time to come inside.

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Howboutit85@reddit

This is still the case. My kids definitely drink from the hose and do anything they can do to avoid coming inside and facing us for chores.

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BooRadley_ThereHeIs@reddit

Definitely. It's also one of those tiny symbols of independence that gradually increase and quantity and magnitude as you grow through adolescence into adulthood.

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Woozle_Gruffington@reddit

Not sure. I drank from a hose yesterday and it was...water. Same potable water that comes out of my faucet, cleaned by the city and ready to drink. If anything it's laziness because I didn't want to take off my shoes to go in the kitchen and use the sink.

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Plane_Chance863@reddit

It was a part of childhood for some people. It's a also a line from Barenaked Ladies song. "Take a drink right from the hose"

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sauvandrew@reddit

Take off hoser.

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Scary-Ad9646@reddit

They misspelled "fun", "building bike ramps" and "throwing rocks and stuff off bridges".

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Vegskipxx@reddit

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esomers80@reddit

Run it for a minute or two then it's the best water...

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Daped01@reddit

Proud garden hose drink survivor here

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Howboutit85@reddit

My kids drink from the hose… they seem to be fine.

For anyone that wants to know; this didn’t stop happening. If you live in the burbs and you have a hose, kids outside will be drinking from it on a hot day. Then, now, and in the future.

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Mike00242424@reddit

I think this meant to say some of the most refreshing cool water ever...well after the hot water gets pushed out.

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hellxhorde@reddit

I still remember the hose taste on a hot summer day as your busy playing, and have no time to go home to get a drink lol

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RootyPooster@reddit

Water from the hose tasted the best.

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5dollarbrownie@reddit

Literally the post right below this:

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3Degrees_Below@reddit

Milk has done y'all more harm than hose water has done to me.

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AllenKll@reddit

that's why you let it run for a minute... duh.

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skeeter_333@reddit

I forgot to let it run for a few seconds first one time, and got a mouthful of earwigs. Core memory created. I still hate earwigs.

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Remytron83@reddit

Let it run for a bit, it’ll clear out. 😆

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New_Temperature4144@reddit

Whatever!

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oakleafwellness@reddit

Ah, the taste of hot rubber after the hose had been sitting in 110 degree sun. Even if you let it cool that water was still hot. There was a water hose at the ball field that we all drank from when the Gatorade was gone, no one’s parents were paying 50 cents for a water bottle from the concession stand.

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411592@reddit

Meh

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OkFox5030@reddit

I called the number- they said it’s fine if you’re born before 1987

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Capable_Salt_SD@reddit

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Amyava510@reddit

Someone should have let my mom know this 40 odd years ago. I’m happy to report that I’m feeling fine still.

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Blackbird136@reddit

I feel like my Xennial card is going to be revoked because never have I ever drank from a hose.

I grew up fairly poor with a mostly single (serial monogamy) parent, we moved a lot, and all but one home was a rental. I never even remember having a hose, much less drinking from it. Hell, I only remember living one place that even had a yard.

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cmgww@reddit

Drinking from a hose is why I only got Covid twice during the whole pandemic. And even then it was mild. joking aside, we’re all going to get exposed to all this crap, it’s not a habit these days but I will drink out of a hose if it’s been running and cool water, especially on a hot day when I don’t want to run back in to the house in dirty clothing and shoes, just to get a drink

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tomqvaxy@reddit

Delicious bugsdirtlead.

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SteveEcks@reddit

Sounds delicious

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rangeo@reddit

Pffft Eye dranque frawm a hoes and maid it

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CherryBombO_O@reddit

I should be dead. A friend convinced me that gutter water was ok when I was 6.

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Rare-Adagio1074@reddit

I can taste this post while reading it!

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UpperChicken5601@reddit

And yet here I am, I solely account drinking from the garden hose the reason I haven't been on antibiotics since is was 10, Florida hose water is the best there is

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colcardaki@reddit

I like that slight terroir of dirt and hose rubber in my fresh summer time drink.

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dfin25@reddit

That's why you let it run for about 30 seconds before you dive in, amatuers.

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djblackprince@reddit

This sign won't stop me because I can't read

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birger67@reddit

who thinks the first couple of liters is delish 😂

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Difficult_Coconut164@reddit

It's all dangerous... "Live at your own risk" ! 😷

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arushus@reddit

Everyone knows you don't drink the first bit that comes out. You let it run for a while till you get the nice cool water.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Cue litany of "but I turned out fine" comments. We made mistakes folks, survival doesn't mean it was ok.

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andiinAms@reddit

No wonder

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StaticNegative@reddit

What about the firehouse?

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allysung83@reddit

Goodbye Hoses

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_Notebook_@reddit

My father never showed this label to me.

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jachildress25@reddit

Mold and bacteria can’t hold a candle to my steel tempered immune system I forged in the 80s and 90s.

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DisorientedViking@reddit

If it weren’t for garden hoses, we would have died of dehydration back in the 70’s!

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LusciousofBorg@reddit

I just drank out of la manguera the other day

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DiscoStu79@reddit

NOW YOU TELL ME??

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Mjmax420@reddit

Too little too late

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ibWBeeRedd@reddit

And yet, we all survived

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Ol_Man_J@reddit

I live in a region that has amazing tap water. I moved into my first home and I bought a garden hose. I was going for a bike ride and I said "Im just gonna fill my bottle up on the hose". Let it run for a minute till it was cool, and filled my bottle up. Whole ride it tasted like shit.

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RonWill79@reddit

This only explains my strong immune system. Probably a MAJOR reason I’m almost never sick.

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Room234@reddit

Uh oh me 30 years ago is in real trouble.

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unchangedman@reddit

It tasted good

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MisRandomness@reddit

Yeah yeah and don’t eat the cake batter…raw eggs yadda yadda whatever. Have any of us ever gotten sick by anything we did?!?

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r0t26@reddit

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thejunkmanadv@reddit

If you ever went out for an "outdoor" sport in high school (football for me), your liquid refreshment was garden hose water plumbed through an "A" frame of steel pipe with holes in it. Something like this, you get the idea.

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detectiveriggsboson@reddit

if it was so dangerous, why did it taste so good

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Proud_Donut_1683@reddit

I guess it just takes 30+years… it’s gotta be any day now for me guys 😵☠️🏴‍☠️💀🪦

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nopester24@reddit

stop being a lil bitch and drink!

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Epicardiectomist@reddit

My wife and I own a small horse rescue. In the summer when we're out tending to farm tasks, I frequently drink from the hose and so do my kids. Granted, we run it so frequently that nothing has time to build up, but still.

At this year's graduation ceremonies, they are both significantly more robust looking than their classmates. The other kids look pale and frail, but they're hearty farm kids with a healthy glow. Let your kids run feral and drink from the hose, it might do them some good.

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palmerry@reddit

If you don't start singing "Area codes" by Ludacris, specifically the chorus by Nate Dogg when you grab any hose,I don't want to be your friend.

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BackgroundPrompt3111@reddit

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!

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ure_not_my_dad@reddit

Classic ratm song

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mtmtnmike@reddit

If I’m going to die from something, hose water is the way to go.

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z12345z6789@reddit

He died like he lived … a real hoser, eh.

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xcab02@reddit

Everyone will remark "You got hosed"

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frodo28f@reddit

We weren't stupid we let that shit run for a minute or two first

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Odoyle-Rulez@reddit

I run the water for a bit, I'm not a monster.

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Fruscione@reddit

Insects + water= vitamin water

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HDDreamer@reddit

How about just straight from the spigot? Cup your hand under and slurp.

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BooBeeAttack@reddit

Hey, I have a kick ass immune system now. Those gulps of slightly dirty hose water while baking in the sun really helped bolster my defenses.

Just me and 6 kids passing around a hose and downing as much water as we could carry before running off to play in a creek or neighborhood construction site. (We didn't have a playground. HOA were bastards and didn't want the liability)

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Horse_Dad@reddit

Whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. I’m practically powered by mold, bacteria, insects, animal waste and lawn chemicals. Excelsior!

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H3llm0nt@reddit

For a split sec I thought your username was Hose_Dad

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harrilal@reddit

I drank from the hose yesterday.

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handsomeape95@reddit

Does it still count if you use the hose to fill up a metal water bottle?

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harrilal@reddit

Sure! You still got all the mold, bacteria, insects, and stagnant water.

You lost out on the magic of pressing the metal of the hose to your lips and enjoying the lukewarm stream of water flooding your throat, but you got all the stuff that would make you stronger.

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Woozle_Gruffington@reddit

Me too. I was outside watering my roses and there was water right there, literally at my fingertips.

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SmidgeMoose@reddit

It's probably why I don't get sick at all anymore.

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Nervous_InsideU5155@reddit

Well I'm still living 🙄

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KinderEggLaunderer@reddit

Don't worry, I wiped off the nozzle with my shirt

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ThePreemestChoom@reddit

The at home drinking fountain?

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UndoxxableOhioan@reddit

You can get NSF 61 hose that is just fine to drink from.

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littleyellowbike@reddit

We never drank from the hose because the hose was never left out. We did drink out of the hydrant, though. The water tasted strongly of iron and it was delicious.

It was absolutely freezing cold, too. Too cold for a sprinkler and if we filled up a wading pool we had to let it sit in the sun for hours before it was comfortable to play in.

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Meyebackhurts@reddit

YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!!!!

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d_dubbs_@reddit

The simple taste that came out, even after letting the water run was enough to let me know there the hose must have been made with left over chemicals from ww2. How much better the water from our tap was compared tonthat shit lol

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roguepandaCO@reddit

Fake news

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joachim_s@reddit

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the_shaggy_DA@reddit

This is why Gen Xers vote for right-wingers. (Their parents vote right-wing because of lead paint exposure)

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PhoneJazz@reddit

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PhoneJazz@reddit

It builds character and your immune system.

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chunkybudz@reddit

It just made us stronger.

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LadyMirkwood@reddit

My nan and grandads house was from the 1930s and still had an outdoor tap that I used to drink from. I also used to cool down by putting my legs in their pond.

I definitely stress tested the old immune system back then!

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-Invalid_Selection-@reddit

It's not wrong.

We did it anyway though.

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I_make_switch_a_roos@reddit

I read that as horses and was quit confused 🐎

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Elandycamino@reddit

Yeah just let it run for a minute before you drink from a horse.

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Geek_King@reddit

High levels of toxic lead and phthalate chemicals are still present in many garden and yard water hoses today, according to researchers at the Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center. The new research also discovered that half of the vinyl (PVC) hoses tested contained electronic waste (e-waste) vinyl contaminated with toxic chemicals.

https://toxicfreefuture.org/press-room/new-study-rates-best-and-worst-garden-hoses/

I had no idea about this until I saw a hose for sale that boasted about being lead free, I was extremely confused, wtf you mean lead free!? I researched it more and found a few sites talking about phthalates and lead, well shit that would have been good to know years ago. You can drink from a hose, as long as you bought a hose made to be safe to drink from.

More information on Phthalates. I learned about these and found out cheap sex toys can be lousy with the stuff, which is extra concerning since those are supposed to go inside of people.

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