Drinking right from the hose

I remember being a kid running around playing backyard football in the heat of summertime.  We'd get so hot and sweaty and would be, I'm sure, smelling like puppies.  The boundaries of the 'football field' were always marked off by trees, the end of the house, or someones shoes.  We'd always take a break from the game and line up at the water hose to drink and cool off.  There were several rules that didn't need to be written down or ratified by the majority - they were just understood.

Common Rules of the Water hose:

#1 Turn on the hose and let it run for a little while before drinking so that the water would be cold.  This was just common knowledge.  The water in the hose was heated in the summer sun and would come out hotter than the devil's oven.
#2 Do not let your lips touch the nozzle.  Ever.  While we might be your friends, no one wants to drink after your nasty lips.
#3 Hurry up and drink and pass the hose.  No dilly-dallying around.  We're all hot and thirsty.  Stop wasting time.

If I thought hard about it, I could probably come up with a few more.  Rule #1 was learned quickly.  If you drank from it before letting it run, not only did it burn your mouth, but it tasted like molten plastic.  Since those Neaderthal days, we've all learned from articles like this: Drinking from the garden hose that drinking right from the hose posed dire health risks.  Funny how the scholarly article, in the last sentence, stated what every kid knows!

Anyway, it is hot out there.  Stay hydrated.  I've been waiting until the late afternoon to weed the garden and I go in from time to time and drink ice cold water.  There is nothing like it to refresh you and cool you off.

Oh speaking of drinking right from the hose, I was guilty of that.  I've never been guilty of this:

This little dude is drinking right from the hose!!!