My wife accidentally ruined my childhood

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Blind Squirrel

Blind Squirrel

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Now I realize I'm still walking among the living and if this incident never happen I would even know the difference. So here's the story.

My spouse loves to mow the yard (and I ain't arguing). It's a riding mower and about 3 acres. I don't know if its the vibration while sitting on the seat of the mower or what. I'd like to think I'm enough but I ain't asking that question. Anyway, So she's out mowing and fails to pull the garden hose from the middle of the yard and runs over it. Sure enough cuts the darn thing in about three pieces. No big deal I think. I'll just Jerry rig it together with a piece of copper pipe and a couple of hose clamps. So I stick my finger in the hole, (The hose hole you dirty minded people, get your minds out of the gutter) to get an idea of the size I need. When I pull my finger out I realize it is the slimiest, nastiest gunk inside that hose, and I'm thinking all these years and way back as a kid how we love to drink nice cold water from the well out of the end of the hose. Thanks a lot honey. I will probably never drink straight from the hose again.
 
Its bad to think about, but you'd be surprised if you knew what's in water line's.
 
Mopar-Mitch said:
Its bad to think about, but you'd be surprised if you knew what's in water line's.
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It's funny I've dam near drown from drinking too much water from a garden hose but nowadays you don't have a good idea.whats coming out of it.
If it dosen't kill you, it should make you tougher. :)
 
I don't have any funny stories, but I'm on some acreage with a well, too. I have a whole house water filter. There is a big fiberglass bottle, which looks like an oxygen bottle, filled with this material called KDF (the material looks like coffee crystals) with a programmable timer head on top. The well water travels thru the KDF media, and it filters out the excess iron, manganese, etc. then thru a 20 micron disposable element cartridge filter. I have mine programmed to backflush the KDF once a night at like 2:00am, and then it just flushes it into my shop sink in the garage, which just sends it out to the septic system. After the initial cost of the system, the only tangible expense is replacing the filter cartridge every 6mos, $20. I got my system from Custom Pure in Seattle.
 
Ingesting all that crud over the years makes a man healthy. You build up immunities from that stuff. This is why so many kids today, the ones that are protected and coddled... get sick from the slightest thing....Allergies to peanuts and other simple **** was never an issue in the 60s as far as I knew.
 
When water lines are laid they get thing's like mice, snakes, frogs, bugs and spider's crawling up in them and getting trapped, the lines are flushed but some of these things stay behind, they eventually dissolve and go away but the thought has always stayed with me.:eek:
 
I will drink the well water at my folks hose but i will not drink the water city water here at my house.
 
It's called biomass, it's full of autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria, and for the most part builds and maintains acquired immunity or causes travelers diarrhea... Part of the reason why there are virtually no allergies in places like India and Bangladesh. All the nastiness makes for very well balanced immune systems.
 
Kern Dog said:
Ingesting all that crud over the years makes a man healthy. You build up immunities from that stuff. This is why so many kids today, the ones that are protected and coddled... get sick from the slightest thing....Allergies to peanuts and other simple **** was never an issue in the 60s as far as I knew.
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You got a point there...now to think of it, I've often wondered about all of the different things that have been making people sick these days...things I don't remember when I was growing up.
 
circlepilot said:
You got a point there...now to think of it, I've often wondered about all of the different things that have been making people sick these days...things I don't remember when I was growing up.
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I worked in a water plant for 5 yrs. , some of u guys a full of it ! They use chemicals in a controlled amount to clean and dis infect the water. Tulsa has had one of the top 5 cleanest water systems in the nation off and on for yrs...
Not on Tulsa water , but I run two filters , my fridge filter doesn't get dirty after 1 1/2 yrs. It cost over $40 to replace, and the warning light comes on every 6 months, glad I cut the last one open, wasn't squat in it !
 
Left plastic water bottles in below 20 F truck and the water never freezes? Think about that when drinking water you paid for water (plastic out gassing). WATER the next GOLD!
 
Well water = FRAC chemicals.
City water = Lead pipes
Bottled water = About 2 bucks a case..... Priceless.
 
No wonder my immune system is so prolific!!! I never get sick, NEVER!! I drank millions of gallons of water from the garden hose when I was growing up. I also drank plenty of water from those old porcelain fountains (back in the 50s and 60s), I remember seeing green slime growing around the squirter hole where the water would shoot out......Mmmmm, yum, yum!!!!
 
The strongest my immunity got was during the two months I became the "hands on" operator at a fabric filter package wastewater plant that had rotary sprayers to aerate the water. But for all intents and purposes, properly operated municipal water is best. But all water systems get some kind of biomass growing in the system. Monthly routine e.Coli bacterial tests let the people that run it know when there is a problem.
 
famous bob said:
I worked in a water plant for 5 yrs. , some of u guys a full of it ! They use chemicals in a controlled amount to clean and dis infect the water. Tulsa has had one of the top 5 cleanest water systems in the nation off and on for yrs...
Not on Tulsa water , but I run two filters , my fridge filter doesn't get dirty after 1 1/2 yrs. It cost over $40 to replace, and the warning light comes on every 6 months, glad I cut the last one open, wasn't squat in it !
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And another thing...
Pittsburgh had very clean water too.
Until some "Do Gooder" started the lead pipe phobia.
Pittsburgh gets their water from the Allegheny.
Southern suburbs ( us ) get ours from the Monogahela.
Notice the difference.
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Dfr360cuda said:
Well water = FRAC chemicals.
City water = Lead pipes
Bottled water = About 2 bucks a case..... Priceless.
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No lead in potable water systems, drain systems only, and that went out about the 1960`s !
 
That's why we rarely got sick. No Purell hand sanitizer, ate fruit and veggies right off the vine, hands got dirty. Think we actually built up tolerance and resistance to stuff.
 
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What's in your municipal water? But worse; what is your government putting into that water?
I never get sick either, but I ain't immune to kidneystones. I passed a 7mm crystal, and a couple of months later a 5mm ice-picked bastard.
Since I have heard horror stories, and cannot prove the water hasn't been purposely poisoned for drinking; I have been drinking distilled water for about 6 months now. Now, when I have to drink tapwater I can taste a noticeable difference. Good or bad I cannot say.
The X-ray/MRI shows 5 more stones in there, and I'm hoping the distilled water will not contribute to any more forming, cuz, man that was painful.
 
It maybe that the hose is the problem, if you look on the hoses before you buy them, alot of them built in 3rd world countries that are built to make the hoses cheap cost, have a warning on them ,not to drink from them, also water left in the hose laying in the sun will build up bacteria . I live in an area where about 1/3 of the people drink spring water that flows into these large nylon tanks, if they don't put them underground to store their water, within 6 months you can see green algae starting to grow in the tanks. And the bottled water, if you check into it, some of the plastic ones have started to be test and showing signs of plastic are breaking down and entering peoples blood stream, take a bottle of it and lay in the sun for a few months, you can see a white slime grow in them, so if they sit in a warehouse 6 months with windows where the sun shines on them, it may show safe until 2023 on the bottle but i have saw some called Crystal Springs in my area on the shelve with that white slime in it sitting on the Krogers and Food City stores in my area.
 
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You've clearly never asked yourself what happens to the grasshoppers in the field when the combine comes through to harvest the wheat and corn.
 
You should see the so far unregulated lists of chemicals being tested for by the EPA now in raw source and in finished water out at the endpoints of distribution systems. I myself have collected for blasting agent, pharmaceutical, fuel additive, and some really strange hypothetical chloro and bromo organic compounds that went to a high end out of state enviromental lab. Being that almost all disinfection save for UV or direct electrolytic processes (unused on municipal scale) are reduction-oxidation reactions, they can make some really strange compounds in the dead ends of water systems with time, temperature, and disinfection residuals or even existing byproducts. The bad part is that the farther away places get from conventional chlorine disinfection, the worse the potential byproducts are.
 
In one house growing up we had a cistern with rats in it. We didn't use that water for cooking or drinking. Would fill a couple 5 gallon containers in town every couple days. This was back before bottled water. Never would have thought back then that people would pay for a bottle of water.
 
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