When I was a kid, everyone drank from the water fountain. On a hot summer day, my mom kicked us out of the house right after breakfast and we couldn't come back until lunch time. And at this point, a sandwich and an apple were waiting for us on a table on the porch. We didn't go inside. We sat out there in the heat and ate our lunch.
We could only go inside if we had to use the bathroom and we had to call to her through the mail slit to let her know we needed to come it. And then we had to go right out again.
But kids today, in the USA, don't drink from the hose. They drink from water bottles or from pitchers of cold, filtered water. They don't even drink directly from the tap or a water fountain.
So when I saw these kids lining up for a drink from the hose, I just stopped and watch. I was so nostalgic that I wanted to put my water bottle down and join them for a nice, unsatisfying lukewarm sip.
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