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Uhhhhhh, guys... (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Aug 2021
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madaboutharry
(41,353 posts)1. Drinking fountains have been banned from my world for decades.
My inner germaphobe cringing now.....
Haggard Celine
(17,022 posts)4. All of the drinking fountains where I live
have been disabled. I'm surprised they have one up there that's operable. Looks like those students have a lot to learn.
we can do it
(12,774 posts)2. What's the problem.
blm
(113,817 posts)3. Oy
tanyev
(44,503 posts)5. Is that a back to school tradition there?
Seems like a bad idea, even without a pandemic.
unc70
(6,325 posts)7. Yes for freshmen
This tradition started sometime in the last 50 years. It was not part of things when I was there in the 1960s. The Old Well itself was certainly part of tradition.
NewHendoLib
(60,497 posts)6. where I grew up (in Rhode Island), we called them "bubblahs"!