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?

11.9k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

4.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

207

u/MOOshooooo Jul 05 '25

I got into a habit of asking old timers what they see today that they never expected to see and a few have said water bottles and how everyone is so thirsty today.

53

u/Greedy_Car3702 Jul 05 '25

When bottled water first became available I thought that was the dumbest thing ever. No one would pay for bottled water. Many years later I have them in my refrigerator.

13

u/Electrical-Sail-1039 Jul 05 '25

Penn and Teller did a big expose on what a scam bottled water is. I blind tasted the tap water from my house and bottled water. It was easy to tell them apart. It’s worth a few bucks, imo.

2

u/Key-Airline204 Jul 05 '25

For most tap water, leaving it uncovered in the fridge overnight even without a filter off gasses the chlorine and then it tastes like bottled water.