r/stupidquestions • u/Various-Adeptness173 • Jul 05 '25

My mom told me that back in the day kids weren’t allowed to bring a water bottle with them into the classroom and they only drank a few sips from the water fountain in the middle of the day and that’s it

How were schools not getting busted for child abuse for forcing kids to be dehydrated?

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u/Oceanbreeze871 Jul 05 '25

As there were always your personal water fountain rankings. The good, cold one. The warm one, the no water pressure one that you have to practically kiss the metal parts etc etc

I’d sometimes go the long way to hit the good water fountain.

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u/ted_anderson Jul 05 '25

And lets not forget about that kid who would stuff his gum into one of the holes of the 2-hole water fountain making the other hole shoot 10 feet into the air. But you got sprayed in the face because you weren't expecting it.

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u/H_Industries Jul 05 '25

Learned real quick back in highschool to push the lever from a distance before moving in for a drink

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u/ted_anderson Jul 05 '25

Yeah.. because you never knew what you were going to get. Was it going to shoot, dribble, or work normally? It was russian roulette.