06-26-2021, 06:59 PM
In another place came up a subject (and a photo) and I responded/posted about:
Sugar cane
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I thought his garden hose inclusion was great but I couldn't figure out how to humorously express that I didn't mind living my life on the edge when it came to drinking from a garden hose, yet, always in the back of my mind when ever I did decide the reward outweighed the risk, the "lesson?" was always there.
Obviously I am not alone in recalling the perils of a garden hose, but it is a universal teaching? Maybe it's "suburban privilege" to grow up having a garden hose.
Maybe it's that I knew where my garden hose had been yet hoped for the best if I didn't know its other uses.
I'd Jamaicanize this post by substituting the words "stand pipe" but that's ridiculous because people have depended upon stand pipes to fill their buckets since before our time. I don't see that much any more, but it brings up another question of what people in shacks (oh oh, board buildings) do for water? Pretty sure the same thing they do for power (Jamaican current.) It's one of the things I don't ask my "acquaintances."
Were you warned about drinking from a garden hose?
Sugar cane
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- purchased in a plastic bag and we were warned long ago that you don't know how clean the hands were of the person who peeled and bagged the item. Me, personally, love sugar cane, but remember to brush your teeth afterward because the sugar feeds the critters living below your gum line which create plague (sp?), another name for their poop.
Then along comes a - Reply:
I thought his garden hose inclusion was great but I couldn't figure out how to humorously express that I didn't mind living my life on the edge when it came to drinking from a garden hose, yet, always in the back of my mind when ever I did decide the reward outweighed the risk, the "lesson?" was always there.
Obviously I am not alone in recalling the perils of a garden hose, but it is a universal teaching? Maybe it's "suburban privilege" to grow up having a garden hose.
Maybe it's that I knew where my garden hose had been yet hoped for the best if I didn't know its other uses.
I'd Jamaicanize this post by substituting the words "stand pipe" but that's ridiculous because people have depended upon stand pipes to fill their buckets since before our time. I don't see that much any more, but it brings up another question of what people in shacks (oh oh, board buildings) do for water? Pretty sure the same thing they do for power (Jamaican current.) It's one of the things I don't ask my "acquaintances."
Were you warned about drinking from a garden hose?