Not A Drop To Drink
Posted on | February 10, 2007 at 2:27 pm | 12 Comments
From our continuing series of What’s Up With That: Things That Don’t Work Right (see the most infamous article in this series here), we have the Mystery of the Intermittent Drinking Fountain. In the hall outside the bathrooms near my cubicle at work, there’s a pair of drinking fountains in the usual configuration: A high one for adults and a lower one for kids. (Never mind that there are rarely children in the building.) The high one never works. The plumbing seems to be cut off. The low one works for most of the day, but then stops working around mid-afternoon. But unlike the high one, water does barely dribble out when it’s in the non-working state and you turn the handle, so some water is still getting through somehow. However, it’s not enough to be able to drink without actually sucking on the faucet.
So I ask: What’s Up With That? Why does the drinking fountain suddenly stop working around 3pm every day?
Latre.
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12 Responses to “Not A Drop To Drink”
February 10th, 2007 @ 7:43 pm
People still drink from drinking fountains?
February 10th, 2007 @ 8:49 pm
Well, how do YOU refill your water bottles?
February 10th, 2007 @ 9:03 pm
For kids? And not to comply with ADA requirements?
February 10th, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
This sounds like a case for Slylock Fox…
February 11th, 2007 @ 12:09 am
People still drink from drinking fountains?
There are various other water fulfillment options down the hall in the breakroom, but sometimes that’s just too far to go. Especially if you’ve been eating Spicy Habanero Doritos.
American Dental Association?
February 11th, 2007 @ 11:06 am
As to 3o’clock: water pressure likely dips at that time for some reason. If the fountain is at the point of barely dribbling out, it woudn’t take much to change that to not dribbling out at all.
When it’s working, the stream is very forceful. There seems to be no in-between setting. It’s either gushing or dribbling.
February 11th, 2007 @ 11:03 am
Americans with Disabilities Act
There’s probably a filter in the unit that hasn’t been changed since the rocks cooled and now contains a superfluity of uckk the likes of which you may not wish to contemplate.
As to 3o’clock: water pressure likely dips at that time for some reason. If the fountain is at the point of barely dribbling out, it woudn’t take much to change that to not dribbling out at all.
February 11th, 2007 @ 12:14 pm
Maybe the tiny “downsized” people from the Dilbert TV show have set up a secret waterslide inside the walls? You never know ’til you sniff the markers…
February 11th, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
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Sorry, I didn’t read closely enough.
February 11th, 2007 @ 2:40 pm
OT: Remastered SPECTRES (w/bonus tracks) and SOME ENCHANTED EVENING (w/bonus tracks and DVD!) out next week.
February 11th, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
I saw that, Sharps! I’m so there! Just wish they were DVD-Audio/surround like AoF.
February 14th, 2007 @ 3:05 pm
The drinking fountain on the other end of the building has the opposite problem. Sometimes it squirts right up onto the wall. You’ll have to conduct a study to see if the timing coordinates with the weak flowing fountain. Maybe this one is stealing the other one’s water supply.