You have brought back one of the oldest and most noble positions amongst any race. The story teller. Good job.

This man continuously makes me remember things about my childhood that I forgot all about. It's the little forgotten details that make those memories vivid again.

I have enjoyed watching Dadbod, but as I continued to watch him, I realized that we are getting old, and crusty like those people that we remembered telling us tales of walking to school in the snow, and getting oranges for Christmas.

I AM a GenX and I get a kick out of your true stories about our lives. They are so spot on and I thank for your videos sir. Our stories need to be told.

In Silence of the Lambs when Buffalo Bill said "....it will get the hose", that bit hits a bit differently to us GenXers. 🤣

Love this channel! Makes me love being a gen x even more than I already did! Keep the stories coming my good sir!!

You sir have an incredible way of bringing back the old days. Thank you . Every time I see a video I find myself laughing at just how good it was back then. A ‘66 baby here & PROUD!!! 😊

That's funny, I thought the same thing. " who the hell is gonna buy that?" Here I am almost 30 years later with a bottle of water in my hand . 😆

Fountain water was my favorite as a little one.... Oh I remember that line struggle to get water.... Back when it was good day's.

Remember when playing outside in our neighborhoods and we would all go and drink out of the hose? LOL! Autocorrect wanted to put house instead of hose. 😂😂😂 That was some of the best water ever! Yum!

I remember when bottled water first started appearing. It was like WHAT people will pay for water! I grew up in Oregon where we had unbelievably pure and great tasting water. The idea that people would pay for water was mind blowing.

The ones in the parks, if it hadn't been used in a little bit...the water, for the first few seconds tended to be hotter than if you let it run for that few seconds. Nobody really wanted that first few seconds of water. Man I miss our childhood days. Thank you for not letting our memories go by the wayside.

Remember the kids that would drink for minutes on end and the kids behind them would cry about the whales being deprived of water? #savesomeforthewhales

I remember filling water balloons and rubber slingshot bands in the water fountain, then have massive water fights in the park. Everyone was involved in community warfare! We were gender and race neutral for all this fun.

Taking me back to the better days. This is new favorite channel!!!

He’s brilliant. I hope his channel catches on big.

Your so wise I never heard stories of my childhood told like the way you tell them. I too grew up in the 80’s I was born in 79. Keep up the good stories.

Ahhh...brings back the fond memories of the kid behind you shoving your face it the running water and the sound of your mouth hitting the metal spout. lol!

State park fountains were the best - basically all you could drink mineral water… and _cold._ Probably some heavy metals in there somewhere, but that’s the way we liked it.

I never had that problem with water fountains that you described. There were fountains that were dribblers and there were fountains that would shoot a stream of water clear across the room if you pressed down on them too hard. And you learned which were which because you saw them all the time. There were also fountains that were cold and fountains that were warm and fountains that you could hear the cooling system kicking on in. And you had to learn which was which. Learning which was which allowed you to judge if you wanted to stop, or if you could hold off being slightly dehydrated because the fountain was a warm dribbler, but if you waited to get to the other side of the park on your walk, the water would be cleaner and cooler and of a reasonable height.

You just painted a picture of my preschool childhood so vividly that was buried! The doting teacher lining us boys up and ya if you weren’t in the front - like all the big boys were, you were subject to no pressure and spittle lol! I preferred the mud soaked garden hose streaming cold water at will from my mom’s house! Good on ya, you are brilliant - kids have no idea what we endured and how we survived without cell phones or Bottled Water! Cheers from Canada!

I will never forget one of the times I was visiting my friend and we were all in the back yard just hanging out. I don't remember the circumstance but I had gotten thirsty and wandered over to the hose, turned it on, waited the obligatory amount of time to let the hot water run through and then took a drink. As I am reminiscing about my childhood tasting that distinctive "hose water" flavor I hear my friends 11 year old daughter exclaim, "What are you DOING?!" We all turned to her and the look of abject horror on her face made myself and my friend burst out laughing. I let my friend deliver the history lesson much like you just did and sat back just laughing at the look of utter disgust through the whole explanation. I still drink tap and hose water to this day. The only time I get bottled is if I'm going on a road trip or other such occasion.

Never stop doing what you do, homie. Tell it.

I always enjoyed the sound of the internal refrigeration kicking in while you drank at more modern fountains.

Ah yes I remember those days. The days when things where not so convenient.

I am a UK early GenX (66), and in my youth met and learnt from those of the days before the days before, the silent generation who were born in the 19th century and raised before the Great War. They clung to their ways just as we cling to our own, and the youngers to theirs. My great grandmothers family were very poor, and their house was still much as when it was built. One cold tap supplied a big white stone square sink in the kitchen, which served for all needs: food, laundry and personal hygiene. the only other plumbing was an outside toilet They had coal fires, with a coal cellar below the house with a chute from the street to fill it, and gas mantles upstairs for light as when the electricity was first installed they could only afford to have downstairs done. In the winter layers of old coats and blankets were piled upon the cast-iron framed beds to protect you from the ice that would form inside the windows and on the chamberpot before morning. An upright piano dominated the front parlour, which we were not permitted to enter unless escorted on special occasions, and we could never use the front door it lead too, being made to circle around to the kitchen door at the rear at all times. There was no television set there until the end of the 70's, the only form of entertainment until then was from a huge ancient walnut radio set known as "The Wireless".

There were moments taht fountain would burn the crap out of your hand but thirst was so bad that wasnt a thought. That drink of water was that important.

The LOTR back-track is priceless 👌

Actually would like the fountains back but with a twist make them so you can fill a bottle.

😂 I think everyone said that at first. "Why the hell would I pay for water in a bottle??" ......and here I am with a half a dozen mostly empty water bottles rolling around in my car. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Accuse one kid of cooties and the whole elementary would be in an uproar😂

There was one fountain in the schoolyard we preferred above all others because the water was sweet. Decades later I learned it was the lead piping. Alas.

We grew up near a forest preserve that had a hand pump that was one of our favorite water spots if it was hot you could just get wet or if we got full of dirt or mud we would get washed up the best time was in the woods playing and eating berries picking flowers and doing things that we will never speak about to our parents

There was always that one fountain that would have cold water everyone would try to use on the hottest days.

Oh God, the water fountain. There was one at church, and one at school. The one at church was weak, so you'd barely get any. And the one at school was to good sometimes. It would spray water right over the edge, also making it hard for us to get any water.

I LOVE THIS GUY!!! When he ever said the water tasted like metal, but we did not care,😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

Don't forget that most water fountains weren't cooled, either. (At least when and where i grew up.)

Great memories and I’m very thankful for Nalgene!

Na as the last of that dying breed, I believe more kids needs this

Dont forget the reliable garden hose, or lacking that, handfuls of water from the creek or river!

If they ever make another 300 movie, this man better be in it ✌🏻

In Australia, we call them "bubblers".

I remember one of those shoving matches, where a young lad lost one of his milk teeth for taking so long. A comrade of his slapped him on the back of the head, causing him to slam into the cobra hood and knock out a tooth. The rest of us had to go to another fountain.

when i 1st saw bottled water for sale I laughed my butt off thinking anyone would pay for it - and that was when it was about a quarter!

There were the horrible school water fountains but then there were the refrigerated water fountains. Built between about 1955 and 1984. Large compressors that used more energy than entire home today, refrigerants that are either banned or restricted to military use now. Yes there are still refrigerated water fountains but the ones made since the mid 1980s are horrid by comparison. Weak, maybe chilling the water a few degrees below the room temperature. The old ones would chill the water down to about 34 degrees F. The last one I knew of went out of service a few years ago. Perhaps there are still some out there.... somewhere.

I live in the mountains and we just drank water straight from streams and creeks. I wouldn't do it today, though.

Gawwwd, that was a disgusting memory now that I think about it. I can remember there were fountains no one would use. These rundown establishments wanted to imply that they had a working and clean water fountain. Hence, progression to water coolers with shipped in 5 gallon water bottles.

In the late 80's, the only bottled water was Evian & it was mostly a status symbol for the women coming out of Elaine Power's. I went to europe spring break '88 & my parents warned me about drinking the water. So, I caved & bought bottled water. I didn’t like my hard earned babysitting & paper route money going to something that should always be free! Like air! That's still free. BTW: did you know EVIAN spelled backwards is NAIVE? Something to ponder....

I have never bought water. I have a well that is 754 ft deep. I bottle my own water.

“Mouth hog ..” 🤣

You forgot the part where everyone after those first few would also only get warm water as the fountains only contained a small amount of chilled water. It was always somewhat of a letdown to get to the fountain and hear the compressor kick on. You knew that was lukewarm water at best.

Here in the UK we seemed to have 2 types of water fountain; one like you describe, weak and feable; the other akin to a geyser, leaving you soaked head to toe and choking.

maybe this is why our immune system is better... we gave it a workout as children.

You speak very wise my friend, I feel we are cut from the same cloth. Keep it up.

I remember the days of old where we sipped out of the creeks

That’s what I remember…it was sweet and delicious! But you had to be one of the first for another reason. After the first minute or so the water became warm as the inside pipes cleared and outside water baked under the scorching sun entered the building.

Memories of the scalding hot water fountains in arizona before refrigerated fountains

Oh, but the biggest problem was that if you weren't among the first kids who'd consumed (or wasted) the water that had been chilled by the tiny refrigeration unit inside, you not only got warmish water, but the hot air from the chiller unit was blown all over your sweaty little self. Hard times, indeed.

It was many year's ago back when gas was a dollar you could walk home from school and you got thirsty and you could walk up to the house and drink from the hose they were called neighbors ...

Good ol bubbler, still some around if you look.

My father used to keep 3-4 plastic cups and when we would drive bye a natural spring and whip up in the and get a glass of the coldest best tasting water to this day I can remember

i remember a old man telling me when i was about 20 that one day you will be buying water i thought he was crazy

It’s a bubbler. The thing shown at the start of the Married With Children theme song? That’s a water fountain.

The Dadbod legend!

Indeed

When the water pressure low it was an art to avoid mouth hogging. And the wiser of us would test the flow to avoid an arc to the face. It became sport to catch the water on the top or farthest of the high pressure water foundation

That water was good!

Yes I remember saying, how ridiculous selling water in a bottle. But now most kids don't even know what a hose is.

True story

Depending on where you are from... We called them bubblers. Because a water fountain was that in a pond shooting up water...LOL yes, I'm from Wisconsin... We called them bubblers... Hehehe

Awww yes bottle water first saw it in 84 or 83 though the same who in the hell would buy bottle water Fast forward 39yrs I have 34pack of water in my truck 🤣

Yes, they were very weak. But even at a dribble, they were FANTASTIC for making water sprays at the other kids! (Said by someone who could run really fast.

Park fountains for us kids AND the dogs! But it was fun to hold your thumb on it so that the person at the next one got shot in the face with a powerful stream! Good times!

this one had me laughing

In Wisconsin, the water fountain was called a Bubbler.

Ahh the good old fasion way of building our immunity .and lets not forget the fluoride packs for our teeth .😆

You gotta do payphones

😂😂😂 he takes what we knew as normal and points out fun facts 😅 bottle water was a cup or s water hose. Thanks 👍 😅😅

Not the spittle 😂

What about the dipper at the spring?

I filled soda bottles with water. One backpack, 4 bottles of soda (water).

You Crack me up

We had a hand Doug well.

I was the jerk that filled soda bottles and 2 liters from the fountain and drained it of its cool water.

I'M ABOUT TO MOUTHHOG THE FOUNTAIN

We had a kid named Putnam in our class who had a propensity to puke in the water fountain.

Haha! Memories

I saw a fountain a few weeks ago and was relieved because I was parched. The damn water was turned off 😢😂

When someone would hock a loogey on the water fountain spigot.

I didn't mind the "spittle" so much as the huge wads of phlegm, mucus, and "ABC" gum that was left in the water fountains.

We drank out of the water hose, got muddy, and then climbed something- Repeat!

And let us not forget the dried gum or other questionable things on the fountain.

It was hot and dry in the desert of socal...sprinklers were a source too. And, yes and good riddens to water fountains...yuck.

My dad put a water fountain in the back yard after years of drinking out the hose.

And then, if you’re really thirsty, you went to the sprinkler….

Hey Kenneth if your out there don't think kids didn't notice you mouth hugging the spicket and sucking out the water. Why you think I was always in front of you? 😮😂😂😂

My water a few years ago was labeled as extremely toxic, and unfit for consumption because of the concentration of heavy metals in the water… so unfortunately, bottled is the only option unless I want to take 50years off my life.

I remember😂! And then came many mouth diseases and then COVID! I do remember the joy!

Let's not forget using the water spicket select water run into our hands and drink from our hands and what

That weird pink scum around the nozzle