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Do Yo Remember?

Bonkers1 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:53:32 GMT

Taking empty jugs and filling them with spring water to take home?

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Desertdi — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:58:43 GMT

I remember people filling water jugs from the PUMPS in the Forest Preserves in Chicago. (This was EONS ago, tho). They claimed that well water was "healthier"...

We drank "Michigan Straight" at my house...

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Kachina624 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:01:58 GMT

I remember taking a bucket up to a spring a grandparent's cabin in mountains in Colorado. It had no running water, gas or electricity. We cooked a wood stove. Used an outhouse. It was quite a novelty for us city folks

Best water in the world.

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PA Mom-mom — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:05:01 GMT

We had well water, but I do remember picnicking on a rock next to a spring in my grandparents' woods . We simply dipped our cups into the spring water to drink.

Not sure what this has to do with Customer Care?

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Love my grandkids — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:09:38 GMT

Never did that in Southern California.

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Desertdi — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:17:15 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
I remember taking a bucket up to a spring a grandparent's cabin in mountains in Colorado. It had no running water, gas or electricity. We cooked a wood stove. Used an outhouse. It was quite a novelty for us city folks

Best water in the world.

@Kachina624

I'd eat SNOW before I'd do that!

Off topic....I've got a yard full of SUMMER birds this morning. WAY too early...get ready for a heat wave! di

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We rescue cats — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:38:26 GMT

We have Heffley Spring just a few miles out of town, we often went there to fill our water jugs. But today, it is not safe, it is infected with Coliform bacteria. People still fill jugs and drink it!

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Kachina624 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:55:49 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:

@Kachina624 wrote:
I remember taking a bucket up to a spring a grandparent's cabin in mountains in Colorado. It had no running water, gas or electricity. We cooked a wood stove. Used an outhouse. It was quite a novelty for us city folks

Best water in the world.
@Kachina624

I'd eat SNOW before I'd do that!

Off topic....I've got a yard full of SUMMER birds this morning. WAY too early...get ready for a heat wave! di

@Desertdi. I'm thinking, but not writing, four letter words. I just know it's going to be hotter than ever this summer.

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cindyNC — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:20:51 GMT

We had a local spring w/water. My parents also had a cabin in the woods.....one room shack, wood stove for heat, outhouse, pump & well in the front yard for water. We would go up during all seasons......including winter.

They also had a small place on a local lake. When they first bought it, there was an outhouse, well for water down the road at the neighbor's place and a small heater fueled by kerosene for heat. When the lake froze in the wintertime, my father would go ice fishing and we would ride snowmobiles all over the frozen lake.

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Happy2BHere — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:52:21 GMT

One time we were on a cruise with family and hired a driver in Martinique to show us the highlights. He took us to various places and when we were heading back to the ship he asked if we minded if he stopped at a spring so he could fill up his two extra large containers in the trunk with some spring water.

Of course that was fine with us, so we stopped and watched him fill up those containers. They were so large that the guys had to help him lift them into the trunk of the car. On the way back we rounded a corner going pretty fast and heard them fall over in the back. When we stopped at the ship we all got out and the driver walked around to the back of the car and that's when he found that those heavy containers somehow had dented clear through to the outside. Oh boy, was he irate! Not at us, of course, but there was sure lots of foot stamping and colorful French swear words flying.

You'll get the picture if you have seen the I Love Lucy episode where Lucy is trying to change a tire and shakes her hands and screams "¡Mira que tiene cosa la como esta! ¡Mira que tiene cosa la como esta!" and Ethel asks her what she is doing that for, and she answers that's what Ricky always does when he's changing the tire - same visual, but in French LOL.

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Neetgal2 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:40:47 GMT

I did do this. My grandmother had a trailer on the Susquehanna River and we would walk down a steep hill and fill, I think buckets with water, they didn't have too much plastic. It was interesting, I was about 8 and my grandmother and great aunt about 60. Not a today 60! As for running water, I honestly do not know. A few years later she moved to a normal house and we stopped getting the water? Great memories.

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San Antonio Gal — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:01:35 GMT

Did you intend to post this in Customer Care @Bonkers1 ?