r/Xennials • u/every_other_monday • 1d ago

Flashback to elementary and middle school

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u/someguyfromsk 1979 1d ago

We had these, and water pressure so bad on some of them you had to suck the water out.

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u/Riala4 Elder Xennial 1d ago

Right? And refrigerated?! Forget about it....

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u/Insomniac_80 10h ago

That is the old, warm, yucky water fountain!

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u/pushdose 1d ago

Oh man, and at some schools, only a handful were actually refrigerated fountains. I’d save my thirst when I knew we’d be by the cold one because the warm ones were nasty. Always tasted like metal.

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u/IceSmiley 1d ago

The same way I learned about puberty 🤐

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u/59apache01 1978 21h ago

Believe Halsey-Taylor made these. They replaced the generic 1950s fountains in my high school with these my sophomore year.

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u/Sharp-Banana-6292 1d ago

Library water fountain water 

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u/Educational_End_2182 1977 1d ago

I embarrassed myself using these in elementary I would curl my leg as if kissing, my first cringe moment

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u/BrainFartTheFirst 1984 1d ago

Wow, refrigerated drinking fountains?

Ours were porcelain.

And warm.

It was a very old school.