Customer Care

[Bonkers1]

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

[Desertdi]

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...

[Kachina624]

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.

[PA Mom-mom]

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?

[Love my grandkids]

Never did that in Southern California.

[Desertdi]

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@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.

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@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

[We rescue cats]

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!

[Kachina624]

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@Desertdi wrote:

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@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.

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

[cindyNC]

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.  

[Happy2BHere]

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.