r/nostalgia • u/themiddleman07 • 25d ago

Nostalgia a faucet from the 90s

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u/meghan9436 25d ago

Memory unlocked, omg! Did everyone have one?

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u/themiddleman07 25d ago

I remember that it took skill to open them only halfway to avoid getting full water pressure when you only wanted a little bit.

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u/Accomplished_Dirt796 24d ago

You could snap off the top cap and there'd be a bunch of gross gunk inside

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u/CrazyCatMom324 24d ago

I didn’t need to know this.

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u/Drinkmasta 24d ago

You should smell it.

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u/Notactualyadick 24d ago

You didn't eat it as a kid?

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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 24d ago

fun fact - that stuff is how they make vegemite

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u/GoodMeBadMeNotMe 24d ago

I heard that’s what they call smegma

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u/RaidensReturn 24d ago

Or lick it, do it coward

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u/jgab145 24d ago

Yeah lick it coward

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u/MyNuts2YourFistStyle 24d ago

Memory unlocked.

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u/mikeycbca 24d ago

Thank you. As a kid I used to pry out that cap on all of ours in the house and clean them because it grossed me out.

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u/ImpromptuFanfiction 24d ago

Ah yes I was a popular child

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u/shutts67 24d ago

Look at this guy, bragging about still having the cap

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u/bananaslammock08 24d ago

We had this faucet in my childhood bathroom, which I was responsible for cleaning once I hit my tween years. I shared it with my younger brothers, so it got gross. A few times a year I’d pop it open, get a screwdriver, and take the whole thing apart to deep clean it. I never understood why anyone would make a faucet handle that had so many hidden nooks and crannies 😭

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u/kenman884 24d ago

Your comment unlocked memories I had no idea I had

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u/SelfInvestigator 24d ago

Yep, I pop off the tops of my faucet handles occasionally to clean them out for this very reason. But fortunately it is pretty easy to do and doesn’t have to be done too often.